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THE NEW YORK
Genealogical and Biographical
Record.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN
GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY.
ISSUED QUARTERLY.
VOLUME XXII., 1891.
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.
Berkeley Lyceum, No. 23 West 44.TH Street,
NEW YORK CITY.
Publication Committee :
Rev. BEVERLEY R. BETTS, Chairman. Dr. SAMUEL S. PURPLE.
Gen. JAS. GRANT WILSON. Mr. THOMAS G. EVANS.
Mr. EDWARD F. DE LANCE V. Mr. WILLIAM P. ROBINSON.
Press of J. J. Little & Co , Astor Place, New \ <■■ k.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Additions to the Library, 62, 113, 162.
Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. by Richard Wynkoop, 66, 132.
Augustine Herrman, 1.
Cleveland. Edmund J. Jasper Griffin of Southold, L. I., 191.
Count of Paris, 100.
Crossman Family, 77.
De Witt Family, 3.
Dexter Family, 6.
I > i x . Morgan. Mr. J. J. Astor and his American Ancestry, 115.
Early Explorations of the North American Coast, 163.
Eaton, A. H. W. Stephen Thorne, the Loyalist, 174.
Evans, Thomas G. The De Witt Family, 3.
James De Peyster Ogden, 150.
Jasper Griffin, 191.
John Jacob Astor, 115.
John Jordan Latting, 102.
Le Moine, J. M. Gen. Richard Montgomery, 65.
Latting, J. [., and W. N. Howard. The Crossman Family, 77.
Letters of George Washington, 149.
Mahlon Dickenson, 21.
Members of the Society, 63.
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, 65.
New Jersey's Revolutionary Flotilla Men, 89.
Notes and Queries. — Albany Records, 155 ; Alexander Hamilton, 57 ; Ancient Chair,
56; Augustine Herrman, 57 ; Baird, 106; Bishop Provoost, 207; Centena-
rians, 56, 105, 159 ; Columbus Statue, 56 ; Dutch Titles, 105, 159 ; Du Vail,
105 ; Fillmore Letters, 105 ; Fitz-Greene Halleck, 208 ; Genealogical Inqui-
ries, 207 ; George Bancroft, 105 ; John Price, 208 ; Judge Paterson, 57 ; Kier-
stede, 106 ; Memorial History of New York, 159, 207 ; Old Burial Ground,
208; Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution, 156; Proceedings of the Society,
104, 155 ; Queries — Bleecker and other Families, 156 ; Thomson and Schuur-
man Families, 157 ; University of Groenigen, 156 ; Van der Voort, 157.
Notes on Books. — Adam and Anne Mott, by Thomas C. Cornell, 112 ; Bartows in
England, by Evelyn P. Bartow, 62 ; Captains of Industry, by James Parton.
112 ; Cosmopolitan, 61 ; Dows or Dowse Family, by A. M. Dows, 61 ; Eliot's
Indian Bible, 59; Epochs of American History, by R. G. Thwaites, 113 ;
Family of Bispham, by William Bispham, 162 ; Francis Chanipernowne, by
C. W. Tuttle, 60 ; Genealogica Bedfordiensa, by F. A. Blaydes, 59 ; Gen.
Washington, 57 ; Goodwins of Hartford, Conn., by J. J. Goodwin, m ; His-
tory of the American Episcopal Church, by S. D. McConnell, 60 ; Journal of
Sarah Howland, 112; Livingstons of Callendar, by E. B. Livingston, 61 ; Mon-
umental Inscriptions of St. Mary's, Levvisham, 162 ; Quarter Millennial Cele-
bration of Taunton, Mass., 61 ; Raymond Family, by Samuel Raymond, 61 ;
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York,
iv bid ex of Siibjetts.
edited by S. S. Purple, 60 ; Registers of the Dutch Church of Kingston, N. Y.,
no; Richard Henry Dana, by Charles Francis Adams, 60; Scotch-Irish in
America, 112 ; Seton of Parbroath, in ; Torrey Family, by D. Torrey, 161 ;
Van Benschoten, 57 ; Vital Records of Rhode Island, 113 ; Wilton Register.-,
transcribed by J. H. Spencer, 61.
Obituaries. — Fisk, 108 ; King, 57, 160 ; Patting, 57 ; Lazarus, no ; Sewell, 58 ;
Thompson, no ; Wemple, 209; Wiley, no.
Pumpelly, Josiah C, Malilon Dickerson, 21.
Pruyn, J. V. L. The Pruyn Family, 15.
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York. Baptisms, 7, 81,
141, 1S3.
Records of the S. P. G. Extracts from, by R. R. Hoes, 115.
Stephen Thorne, the Loyalist, 174.
Thompson, Frederick D. The Thompson Family of Suffolk County, N. Y., 33
Van Wagenen, Gerrit IL The Van Wagenen Family, 151.
Voorhees, Philip R. New Jersey's Revolutionary Flotilla Men, So,.
Webster, Daniel, A Buckeye Cane, 51.
Weddings at St. Mary's, Whitechapel, London, 52, 75, 204.
THE NEW YORK
(genealogical anfo §iograpI]ical Becoro:
Vol. XXII. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1891. No. u
AUGUSTINE HERRMAN.
Augustine Herrman was born in Prague in or about the year 1605.
He was the son of Augustine Ephrairn Herrman, an honored citizen//
a merchant in the Kohlmarket, and his wife Beatrice, a daughter of \
the patrician family of Redal. Little is known of their earlier history.
The elder Herrman, a Protestant, involved himself in political complica-V
tions which led to his outlawry in 1618. His further history is unknown, y
but his wife and son were living in Amsterdam in 1648. Augustine'/
Herrman aPl nrs to have enjoyed an excellent education. He was a
Latin scholar and was well versed in literature. He spoke the languages
of Germany, France, Spain, Holland and England. He was skilled also
in drawing, mathematics and geometry. He appears to have been a
youth of energy and enterprise. At an early age he entered the service
of the Dutch West India Company. In the course of his duties, he
visited Corsica, Sardinia and the Antilles. Herrman mentions in a letter
to Governor Stuyvesant, in 1654, that he had begun the trade in tobacco
in Virginia in 1629. From this trade the Dutch West India Company de-
rived great benefit, which, indeed, it appears to have acknowledged in the
same year by something very like a modern vote of thanks. About 1633
Herrman appears to have been in high favor with Van Twiller, the gover-
nor, or director, of New Netherlands, and to have accompanied, in some
official capacity, the expedition sent by Van Twiller to the South or Dela-
ware River, under the command of Arent Corssen. For the next ten
years his Hie is involved in much obscurity ; though, from what can be
learned from tradition, it appears to have been active. It is believed that
he visited Brazil and Surinam, and returned for a short time to Holland.
The first positive information, however, about his movements is of his
arrival in New Amsterdam from Curacoa, in 1643, in the ship Maechtvan
Enckhuyen, under the command of Captain Laurens Cornelissen. There
he established himself as agent for the great Amsterdam firm of Peter
Gabry & Co. His place of business was next door to the factory of
the West India Company. He built up a large and miscellaneous trade
in groceries, ship's stores, furs, cotton, tobacco and even slaves. In
Virginia his brother-in-law George Hack was his agent and correspond-
ent. His sister Anna Hack at one time sent him the somewhat incon-
gruous consignment of some boards, a horse and a negro. Herrman
also acted as a banker, and occasionally as a lawyer. His efforts in the
latter capacity, however, do not appear to have been crowned with much
success, for his two clients both lost their suits. He was, nevertheless,
a man of great energy and ability, and left no honorable means untried
1
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2 Augustine Herrman. [Jan.,
to earn a livelihood. He made large purchases of land, among others
about 30,000 acres at what is now South Amboy, and an extensive tract
in New Jersey opposite Staten Island. In 1650 he planted indigo in his
Bowery, or country place, on Manhattan Island, and sent some of the
crop to Holland, where it was highly approved. He acted also as agent
for others in the purchase of land. At about the same time ( 1 65 1 ) he
bought land between the Raritan and Passaic Rivers for Adrian Van
Werkhausen, a patrician of Amsterdam, who proposed founding a colony
there. Soon afterward he bought, together with Adrian Vanderdonk,
the Yonkers on the Hudson River. Certain maps printed in 1650 by
Nicholas Jan Visscher were made by Herrman ; and the first drawing of
New Amsterdam, which is also his work, is found in the book which con-
tains the maps.*
It is not necessary to enter into the controversies between the successive
Dutch governors and the colonists further than to say, that, while the
former were attempting to make their authority absolute, the latter in-
sisted upon the great principles of representation and of taxation
through their representatives. Herrman, who was one of the Council of
Nine, f appears to have set his face against the arbitrary acts of Stuy-
vesant, for which he, together with Vanderdonk, was imprisoned. They
were, however, soon released, and thenceforward became the leaders of
the popular party. After the death of Vanderdonk in 1653, Herrman
appears to have suffered very harsh treatment at the hands of Stuyvesant.
His business was broken up, his houses and lands were seized, and he
was forced to withdraw from the colony. This persecution, however, if it
were such, does not appear to have been of long duration, for in the same
year, 1653, ne appears to have returned, to have satisfied his creditors,
and to have settled his affairs. The disputes between the governor and
the people, however, were by no means at an end ; and Herrman, who
was the champion of the colonists, seems to have enjoyed their unbounded
confidence. He was a man of resolution, of energy, of observation and
experience. His eloquence gained the attention of the people, and his
abilities commanded their respect. Although no friend of Stuyvesant, he
appears to have been treated with respect and confidence by the Director,
for he was one of the commissioners who were sent by him to New England
and Virginia in 1653 and 1654 to settle the relations between the New
Netherlands and the English colonies. Herrman returned to New
Amsterdam in the early part of the latter year, and resumed his business,
which he carried on with great success, and soon became one of the
richest men in the colony. In January, 1659, Herrman, who had always
been fond of travelling, undertook a long voyage to Curacoa, Martinique,
St. Christopher's and Buenos Ayres. He shortened his trip, however,
and combined business with pleasure. He landed at Curacoa about the
30th of April and left there about the 16th of May. He visited St. Chris-
topher's, where he took on board a cargo of sugar and cotton. This he
* Beschrizninge van Nieuw Nederlantghelyck hettegen noordige in Stadt is 82,
1655. Second edition, 1656.
I The Council ol Nine consisted of three merchants, as many honorable citi-
zens, and three fanners. Its functions do not seem to have been very clearly
defined. It seems to have advised the Director General, to have taken the general
supervision of the affairs of the colony, and to have imposed taxes. The members
of the first class, appointed by Stuyvesant, were Herrman, Van Hardenberg and
J.oockersman. The nine men were selected from eighteen chosen by the people.
1891.] The I)e Witt Family of Ulster Co., X. V. 3
carried to the Delaware, where he exchanged some of his goods for furs.
He returned to New Amsterdam in June, 1659, bringing a valuable cargo
of sugar, cotton, horses and furs.
In the same year he was sent as ambassador to Maryland, where he
argued with great ability the rights of the Hollanders to their settlements
on the South or Delaware River, in opposition to the claims of Lord
Baltimore and the colonists of Maryland. The history of these negotia-
tions, the final result of which was the establishment of the independ-
ence of Delaware, is given by Brodhead in his " History of New York.*'
In 1660 and 1661 Herrman received from Lord Baltimore liberal grants
of land, in all about thirty thousand acres, in Cecil and Newcastle
Counties. To this territory, which was erected into a manor, and
which Herrman called Bohemia Manor, a name which it keeps to this
day, he moved with his family. His wife was Jane Varleth of New
Amsterdam, a daughter of Caspar and Judith Varleth. His children
were Ephraim, George, Casparus, Anna Margaretta, Judith and Fran-
cina. Herrman lived in great state and dignity at Bohemia Manor
until his death in 16S6. He was succeeded by his eldest son Ephraim
as lord of Bohemia Manor. His family is now extinct in the male
line ; and the noble estate, which continued unimpaired for more than
a hundred years, is now divided into many smaller ones which are held
by the descendants of Herrman's daughters.
THE DE WITT FAMILY OF ULSTER COUNTY, NEW
YORK.
By Thomas G. Evans.
(Continued from Vol. XXL, p. 190, of The Record.)
Family 45.
Childreti 0/ Chailes'' Be Witt (120) and Blatidina DuBois.
309. i. JohnC. b. Oct. 22, 1755; d. circ. 1832, at Windham, Greene
Co., N. Y. : m. Nov. 15, 1778, Cornelia Cantine b.
March 29, 1757 ; d. April 23, 1814), daughter of Mat-
thew Cantine and Catharine Nottingham.
310. ii. Margaret5, b. July 2, 1758 ; m. April 10, 1783, Johannes
Bruyn (b. 1751 ; d. Feb. 10, 1814), son of Jacobus
Bruyn and Jeannie Graham.
311. iii. Mary6 b. SepL 28, 1760 ; d. July 18, 1798 ; m. April 10,
1783, Jacobus Hasbrouck (bp. Sept. 28, 1753 ; d. July
4, 18 19), son of Abraham Hasbrouck and Catharine
Bruyn.
312. iv. Gerrit6 b. Aug. 8, 1762 : d. Feb. 5, 1846 ; m. Nov. 18,
1786, Catharine Ten Eyck (b. Oct. 27, 1765 ; d. April
3, 1840), daughter of Matthew Ten Eyck and Cornelia
Wynkoop.
The De Witt Family of Ulster Co., N. Y. [Jan.,
313. v. Ann5 b. Nov. 11, 1764 : m. Feb. 16, 1786, Peter Tappen,
jr. (bp. Nov. 4, 17^14), son of Christopher Tappen and
Annetje Wynkoop.
Family 46.
Children of Andries4 De Witt (121) and Blandina Ten Eyck.
314. i. Jenneke6 bp. Jan. 11, 1755 ; d. Oct. 2, 1823 ; m. Jacobus
Bruyn (bp. May 24, 1749), son of Jacobus Bruyn and
Jeannie Graham.
315. ii. John5 b. Aug. 28. 1758 ; d. March 16, 1836; m. (1) at
Schenectady, N. Y., March 12, 1 78 1 . Rachel Wemple
(b. March 10, 1761, d. Feb. 21, 1807), daughter of
Abraham Wemple and Helen Vanderburgh ; m (2) Dec.
4, 1809, Flizabeth Kroni (d. Oct. 18, 1855).
316. iii. Maria6 bp. June 26, 1761 ; m. March 7. 1787, Moses I.
Depuy (bp. Nov. -16. 1766), son of John Depuy and
Annatje Van Wagenen.
317. iv. Abraham Ten Fyck5 b. April 9, 1764 : d. May 13, 1849;
m. (1) Leah Wynkoop (b. April 1766; d. June 20,
1829), daughter of Cornelius Wynkoop and Leah Dubois;
m. (2) Dec. 24, 1829, Sarah Depuy (b. Aug. 29, 1779 \
d. Nov. 18, 1862), daughter of Joseph Depuy and Mary
Depuy. Was a physician.
318. v. Charles6 bp. Jan., 1776; m. Nov. 25. 1798, Sarah M. Dela-
mater (bp. May 11, 1783), daughter of Jacob Delamater
and Sarah Delatnater.
Family 47.
Children of Andries* De Witt (123) and Maria Depuy.
319. i. Cathryntje5 bp Nov., 1755 ; m. Daniel Deyo.
320. ii. William5 bp. Aug. 17, 1757.
321. iii. Jacobus5 b. circ. 1759 ! m- June ' 9> '7^6, Dinah Newkerk.
322. iv. Cornelius Depuy5 b. circ. 1761 ; m. Nov. 23, 1786, Mar-
garet Cantine (b. Jan. 26, 1768), daughter of Petrus
Cantine and Magdalena Lefever.
323. v. Andries A.5 bp. April 1, 1764 ; d. July 29, 1835, at Albany,
N. Y.: m. Maria Gasherie (bp. April 19, 1767), daughter
of Louis Gasherie and Geertje Decker.
324. vi. Abraham6 bp. May 1 1, 1766.
325. vii. Henry6 b. Feb. 6, 1768; d. Oct. 29, 1808; m. Aug. 27,
1793, Dorothy Heermance (b. Feb. 4, 1770; d. Feb.
22, 1852, at Albany), daughter of Jacob Heermance and
Catharine Vosburgh.
326. viii. Maria5 b. Aug. 5, 1770: d. previous to 1808.
327. ix. Moses6 b p. June 25. 1772 ; m. Flizabeth Deyo (b. Dec.
28, 1778), daughter of Daniel Deyo and Margaret Le-
fever.
328. x. Eli6 bp. Feb. 18, 1774 ; d. Dec. 27, 1850; m. Sept. 18,
1800, Eleanor Newkerk (b. Nov. 2?, 1777 ; d. Nov. 8,
'89'.]
The De Witt Family of Ulster Co., N. 1\
1826), daughter of Garret C. Newkerk and Leah New-
kerk.
329. xi. Levi5 bp. April 21, 1776 ; d. 1813, at Albany, N. Y. ; m.
Maria Oakley, who died at Newark, N. J., in 1865.
330. xii. Ephraim5 b. Dec. 28, 1777; d. Jan. 19, 1842, at Jersey
City; m. (1) Dirckje Van Loon (b. Oct. 8, 1783; d.
July 8, 1810), daughter of Jacob Van Loon and Cata-
lyntje Schuyler ; m. (2) Ann Walsh.
331. xiii. Thomas5 b. Sept. 4, 1781.
Family 48.
Children of Gar Ion* De Witt (126) and Phoebe Waterman.
332. i. Levi5 bp. Aug. 1765.
333- »■ John5 b. Jan. 15, 1768.
334. iii. Maria5 b. March 17, 1770.
335. iv. Sarah5 bp. June 28, 1772.
Family 49.
Children of Levi* De Witt (131) and Wynlje Schoonmaker.
336. i. Frederick5 b. Nov. 30, 1 781 ; d. Oct. 7, 1865; m. March
29, 1802, Catharine Jansen (b. March 25, 1784 ; d. May
12, i860), daughter of Benjamin Jansen and Elizabeth
Bosch.
337. ii. Andries Roosa5.
338. iii. Thomas5.
Family 50.
Children 0/ Henricus* De Witt (181) and Margaret Schoonmaker.
33g. i. John Henry5 b. Dec. n, 1786; d. May 24, 1827; m.
Sept. 20, 1 8 10, Cornelia Wynkoop (b. Feb. 7, 1791 ; d.
Jan. 15, 1869), daughter of Evert C. Wynkoop and
Rachel Hardenburgh.
340. ii. Petrus5 b. May 18, 1789; d. previous to 1837.
341. iii. Anne5 b. Aug. 31, 1792 ; in. 1809, at Fishkill, N. Y.,
Herman Rosecrans.
342. iv. Jemima5 b. Sept. 22, 1795 ; d. previous to 1837.
343. v. Jacob5 b. May 29, 1798.
344. vi. Jane5 m. Jacob E. Hoornheck.
Child by his second wife, Elizabeth Connel.
345. vii. John Henry5 b. May 15. 1827.
Family 51.
Children of Evert* De Witt (200) and Gertrude Per sen.
346. i. Lucas5 b. Oct. 2, 1756 ; m. Sept., 1780, Elizabeth Van
Loon (b. March 4, 1756), daughter of Jacobus Van Loon
and Catharine Van Loon.
347. ii. Abraham5 b. Dec. 26, 1757 ; d. in infancy.
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353-
Vlll
The Dexter Family. [Jan.,
348. iii. Jan5 b. Jan. 15, 1759.
349. iv. Henricus5 bp. Dec. 27, 1760 ; d. April 13, 1830 ; m. Nov.
19, 1796, Catharine Dumond (bp. April 20, 1767 ; d. Feb.
T4> j^55)j daughter of David Dumond and Elizabeth
Van Orden.
Abraham5 bp. Jan. 22, 1763.
Catharine5 bp. June 25, 1765.
Jacob5 b. Oct. 22, 1768.
Pf.trus5 b. March 24, 1770.
Family 52.
Children of Lucas4 De Wilt (203) and Deborah Per sen.
354. i. Jacobus5 bp. March 29, 1764 ; m. Catharine Edwards.
355. ii. Catharine5 bp. Jan. 28, 1766 ;d. June, 1820 ; m. Jeremiah
Young.
356. iii. John6 b. Aug. 3, 1768; m. Hannah Egbertson (bp. Oct.
24, 1784), daughter of Cornelius Egbertson.
357. iv. Peter5 m. Jan. 25, 1795, Jane Persen (bp. June 1, 1777),
daughter of Jacobus Persen and Eva Queen.
358. v. Deborah5 m. William West.
359. vi. Abraham5 bp. April 25, 1777 ; d. in infancy.
360. vii. Abraham5 bp. Aug. 27, 1780.
THE DEXTER FAMILY.
The Dexters of Massachusetts, Albany and New York are descendants
of one Richard Dexter, who came to America about the middle of the
seventeenth century and settled in New England, where his immediate pos-
terity were the leading citizens of Dedham, Mass., following the ministry for a
vocation, and taking the lead in all social matters. The family afterward
scattered- — one branch settling in Boston, another in New York, and still
another in Albany, N. Y. ; the head of the first being now F. Gordon Dexter,
Esq., that of the latter having been the late George Dexter, Esq., whose
three daughters (the Misses Dexter of Albany and Mrs. W. H. Bradford
of New York City) are the sole representatives of this branch. Richard
Dexter the pioneer, with his wife Bridget, came from Ireland, where his
fathers had lived for upward of four hundred years, descendants of
Richard de Exeter, governor of Ireland in the thirteenth century, whose
posterity corrupted the name and merged it into D'Exeter and Dexter.
The ancestors of Richard the Governor are supposed to have emigrated
from France soon after the Crusades — in which they had taken an active
part, the coat-of-arms which the family now use bearing on its shield
golden coins in token of a sum of money given by them to aid the
carrying on of these wars — and to have settled permanently in Ireland,
where they occupied high positions and intermarried with Irish ladies of
distinction. Without doubt, the Dexter family is both old and good,
one of the best of the proud New England families, who think as much
of their lineage as do the recognized nobility of the mother land.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Fork.
RECORDS OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH IN THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.— Baptisms.
(Continued from Vol. XXI., p. 158, of The Record.)
Dec:
A° 1/3 1. OUDERS. HINDERS.
Nov: 28. Joseph W a 1 d r o n , Tryntje.
Aafje Hellakes.
John Galoway, Elisabet.
Armaatje Lamb.
5. Walter Hyer, Jen- Cornells,
neke Van Vorst.
Pieter Broil wer. Elis- Annaatje.
abet Quakken-
bosch.
8. David Abeel, Maria Cathalina.
Dilykink.
19. Jacobus Qiiik, Maria Cornells.
Smith.
Francis Neger, Elis- Johannes.
abet Bicker Ne-
gerin.
Nicolaas Swaan, Jannetje.
Hendrikje Sickels.
Isaac Somerendyk, Isaac.
Sara Van Norden.
25. Cornells Folleman, Cornells.
Maria Wessels.
26. Thomas Montagne, Thomas.
Rebecca Bryn,
John Le Montes, Rachel.
Aaltje Van Norden.
A°. 1732.
Jan : 1. Willem Fisjer, Elisa- Antje.
bet Smith.
Jacobus Montagne, Aaltje.
Maria Pell.
9. Philip M i n th o r n, Margrietje.
Annaatje Roll.
16. Hendrik Ten Broek, Leyntje.
Marritje Blank.
Casparus Blank, Angenietje.
Marritje Andriesse.
GETUYGEN.
Henricus Boelen, Antje
Waldron.
Roelof Van Mepelen,
Janneije Lamb, s. h. v.
Jan Hyer, Sara Bosch,
h. v. v. Gerrit Hyer.
Johannes Van Norden,
Lea Quakkenbosch
jonge dochtr.
Christoffel Bancker, Anna
Elisabet Staats Wede
Van Philip Schiivler.
Jacobus Quik jong m.
Pieternella Van de
Water.
Willem Bicker, Hanna,
Tjek Van de Boiiwery.
Abraham De Lanoy, Jan-
netje Rom me, syn h. v.
Frederik Van Cortland,
Francyntje Yay, syn
h. v.
Henricus Breestede,
Geertje ^'essels, syn
h. v.
Abraham Paling, Elisabet
Potter.
Coenraat Ten Eyck To-
bias, z. Catharina Ten
Eyck, h. v., Van Wyn-
and Van Zant.
Johannes Peek, Maria
Smith.
Samuel Pell, Elisabet
Phenix.
Johannes Van Deiirssen,
Geertje Minthorne, syn
h. v.
Gysbert Van Deursen,
A'nnetje Ten Broek, s.
h. v.
Johannes Blank, Ange-
nietje Blank, jong dr.
g Records of the Reformed Dutch Church w New Fork. [Jan.,
A° 1732-
Jan : 23.
[514.]
26.
Febi
30.
: 6.
9-
»3-
OUDERS.
Abraham Marschalk,
Maria Sebering.
G y s b e r t Uittenbo-
gart, Catharina
Paling.
Adriaan Hoogland,
Engeltje Van de
Water.
Ahasiienis Turk,
Hillegond Kiiyper.
Hendrik Cuyler,
Maria Jacobs.
Johannes H o p pe ,
Maria Van Norden.
Reynier Burger, Dina
Van Gelder.
Simon Van Seys,
Geertruy Pell.
Henricus Ben sen,
Catharina Van
Laar.
Jan Smith, Dina
Beely.
Rodger French, Mar-
grietje Low.
16. Barent Bos, Aafje de
Voie.
20. Steenwyk de Riemer,
Catharina Roose-
velt.
Jacob Ryke, Catha-
rina Pomre.
Johannes Symense,
Zilster Corsen.
25. Pieter Wessels, Cor-
nelia de Hart.
27. Johannes Roorbag,
Sophia Grau.
Maart 3. Hendrik Ryke, Elis-
abet Peek.
5. NicolaasGouverneur,
Geertriiyd Ryn-
ders.
Henry Filkens, Elis-
abet Smith.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Andries. Isaac Sebering, Catharina
Van Wyk, s. h. v.
Elisabet. Joost Palding, Elisabet
Welsch.
Jannetje. Johannes Brouwer,
Rachel Blank.
Aaltje.
Johannes Turk, Aaltje
Turk, jong : dr.
Tileman.
Thomas Bayeux, Jun^,
Sara Cuyler, syn h. v.
Wessel.
Jacob Van Norden,
Christina Sabrisco.
Johannes.
Carsten Burger, Tanneke
Van Gelder, j. dr.
Catharina.
Johannes Tieboiit, Maria
Blydenburg.
Gerrit.
Harmen Bensen, Aaltje
Bikkers, syn h. v.
Abraham.
Abraham Van Vlek, Sara
Kip, h. v. iVan Joh :
Vander Heu .
Thomas.
Cornel is Low, Margrietje
Van Bussiim, s. h. v.
Ytje.
Petrus Bos, Anna Syl-
vester, jonge dr.
Isaac.
Jan Sjoet Junior, Mar-
grietje de Riemer, s.
h. v.
Hazuel van Keuren,
Lydia.
Marritje Ryke, syn h. v.
Elisabet.
Joseph de Voe, Susanna
Druliet.
Pieter.
Baltus de Hart, Annaatje
Wessels, jonge dr.
Gerrit.
John Pieter Zenger, Anna
Catharina Moulin, s.
h. v.
Adriaan Coning, Rachel
Elisabet.
Peek, s. h. v.
Hester.
Abraham Gouverneiir,
Hester Leysler Wede
Van Barend Rynders.
Henry.
Frans Filkens, Annaatje
Smith, h. v. Van Jan
Ten Broek.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Niiv York.
A" 1732.
Maart 8.
12.
19.
26.
[5 1 5- J
April 2.
16.
19.
{/
OUDERS.
Pieter De Groof,
Rebecca Goederis.
Wilhelmiis Beekman,
Catharina De
Lanoy.
Johannes Van Gel-
der, Sara Van
Deursen.
David Maundeviel,
Jannetje Woerten-
dyk.
Isaac de La Metre,
Belitje Waldron.
Nicolaas Bayard,
Elisabet Rynders.
Ahasueriis Elzeworth,
Maria Van Gelder.
KINDERS.
Pieter.
Jacobus.
Teuntje.
Johannes.
Abraham.
Samuel
Ahasuerus.
Johannes Burger, Cornelia.
Jannetje Brouwer.
Pieter Van Norden, Cornelis.
Antje Willemse.
9. Benjamin Wynkoop, Benjamin.
Jr, Eunice Burr.
Henry Braisjer, Abi- Aaltje.
gael Parcel.
10. Frederik Van Cort- Eva.
land, Francina
Yay.
Johannes Van Seys, Johannes.
Engeltje Appel.
Jacobus Renaudet, Maria.
Belitje Hoogland.
Walter de Graiiw, Dorothea.
Maria Lamare.
Pieter Kemble, Geer-
truyd Bayard.
Samuel
Jacob.
Mattheus Deursen,
Margrietje Poiilse.
30. Wert Pels, Catharina Catlyntje.
de Grauw.
GETUYGEN.
Johannes Hoogland, Ma-
ria Goederis, h. v. Van
Willem ConniDgham.
Willem Walton, Magda-
lena Beekman, jong
dr.
Harmanus Van Gelder,
Teuntje Idessen, syn
h. v.
Jacobus Henion, Maria
Tiikker.
Barent Barheit, Rebecca
Oothout, syn h. v.
Stephaniis Bayard, Mar-
gareta Van Cortland,
h. v. Van Samuel
Bayard.
Cornelis Van Gelder, Sara
Elzeworth, jonge dr.
Abraham Brouwer, Maria
Brouwer, wede.
Johannes Webber, An-
naatje Van Norden, h.
v. Van Johannes Web-
ber.
Benjamin Wynkoop,
Femmetje Van der
Heul, s. h. v.
Isaac Braisjer, Geertje
Parcel.
Jacobus Van Cortland,
Anna Van Cortland,
jong dr.
Johannes Daily, Jiidith
Ver Wey wede Van
Johs Ver Wey.
Abraham Van Wyk, Ma-
ria Crommelyn.
Hendrik Bogert, Cornelia
de Graiiw, syn h. v.
Samual Bayard, Marga-
reta Van Cortland, s.
h. v.
Hendrik Poiilsen, Lena
Van Deursen.
Simson Pels, Marytje
Bensen, syn h. v.
IO Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Y01 k. [Jan.,
A° 1732. OUDERS.
April 30. John Mk Kvers, Cath-
arina Van Home.
May 7. Abraham Palding,
Maria Cosyns.
10. Abraham Vreden-
b li rg, Dorothee
Caljer.
14. Lucas Braisjer, Ju-
dith Gachere.
Abraham Van Home
Jans z. Catharina
Rutgers.
18. Jesse De Foreest,
Teuntje Tietsoort.
Johannes Roome,
Susanna Chevalje.
28. Resolveert Waldron,
Metje Qiiakkenbos.
29. Jan Hyer,
Margrietje
Jiiny 11. Gysbert Uittenbo-
g e r t , Catharina
Hunter.
Jacobus Van Norden,
Christyntje Sa-
brisco.
14. Patrik Jakson, An-
naatje Van der
Spiegel.
18. Johan Frans Walter,
Mary Liesbeth.
[516/
21
Jan Olivier, Antje
Blom.
Mansfield Tukker,
Marike Harden-
broek.
KINDERS.
Catharina.
Gerrit.
Johannes.
Judith.
Catharina.
Margrietje.
Rachel.
Johannes.
Jenneke.
Isaac.
Wessel.
Willem.
Elisabet.
Maria.
George.
29. Jacob Miller, Cat- Cathalina.
lyntje Kip.
Isaac Chardovine, Annetje.
Antje Caar.
Christoffel Bancker, Christoffel.
Elisabet Hoog-
land.
July 12. Henry Lawrence, Elisabet.
Hester Lynsen.
GETUYGEN.
Abraham Van Home,
Jans z. Catharina
Meyer, h. v. Van Jan
Van Home.
Teunis Quik, Vroutje,
syn h. v.
Frederik Blom, Apolonia
Vredenburg, s. h. v.
Nicolaas Antony, Rebecca
Pieters, syn h. v.
Harmanus Rutgers, Cath-
arina Meyer h. v. Van
Jan Van Home.
Henricus De Foreest,
Selyntje de Foreest.
Barent Bos, Rachel
Chevalje. jong dr.
Johannes Waldron, Cor-
nelia Lent Wede.
Baltiis Hyer, Angenietje
Lynsen Wede Van
Robert Theobalds.
Isaac Braisjer, Elisabet
Eckesen.
Johannes Van Norden,
Ariaantje Webbers, s.
h. v.
Cornells Wynkoop, An-
naatje Jakson, jong dr.
Pieter Corselius, Elisabet
Herps.
Jesse Montagne, Gerritje
Jeats, syn h. v.
Gerardus Hardenbroek.
Catharina Harden-
broek h. v. Van Jaco-
bus Roosevelt.
Jacobus Livingston, Maria
Kierstede, syn h. v.
Willem Caar, Elisabet
Caar, jonge dr.
Petrus Rutgers, Jannetje
Bancker, h. v. Van
Harmanus Schuyler.
Abraham Lynsen, Elisa-
bet Lynsen.
1 89 1. 1 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. \\
is
A" 1732. OUDERS.
July 16. Samuel Ten Eyck,
Maria Gorny.
Abraham Pultrow,
Maria Vreeland.
19. Johannes Meyer,
Elisabet Pell.
Jan Goelet, Jannetje
Cannon.
Pieter Cannon, Wil-
lemyntje Scher-
merhoorn.
23. Johan Jiirry Bakkes,
Elisabet Wys.
Engelbert Waldorf,
Geertriiyd J o n g-
bloed.
John Taljuw, Maria
Van Gelder.
30. Francois Marschalk,
Anne Leynsen.
Aug: 5. Johannes Poulse,
Tryntje Van Deur-
sen.
H e n d r i k Van de
Water, Anna Schil-
man.
Johannes Daily, Mar-
grietje Van Sys.
James Ttikker,
Marytje Woerten-
dyk.
8. Samuel Pell, Su-
sanna Rusje.
13. Johannes Vreeden-
biirg, Jannetje
Woederd.
Pieter Van Dyk, Cor-
nell. varik.
[517,1
27.
Willem Gilbert,
Maria Van Zant.
Abraham Ten Eyck,
Jesyntje Borkels.
Cornells Turk,
Catharina Van Til-
burg.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Maria. Johannes Romme, Elisa-
beth Ten Eyck, s. h. v.
Catharina. Victoor Bicker, Annaatje
Cregier, s. h. v.
Annaatje. Nicolaas Kermer, An-
naatje Pell.
Jannetje. Pieter Cannon, Catharina
Cannon.
Aarnout. Aarnout Schermerhoorn,
Maria Beekman, syn
h. v.
Margrietje. Pieter Bakkes, Mar-
grietje Kemmer.
Marica. Hendrik Bernard lis
Haanrad, Veronica
Crollius.
Abraham. Abraham Van Gelder,
Neeltje Onkelbag, h.
v. Van Johs Van Gel-
der.
Elisabet. Abraham Leynsen, An-
genietje Leynsen,
Wede Van Robert
Theobalds.
Hendrik. Hendrik Poulse, Aaltje
Van Deursen.
Pieternella. Jacobus Qiiik, Pieter-
nella Van de Water.
Judith. Heere Ellis, Engeltje
Appel.
Cornells. Johannes Peers, Elisabet
Woertendyk.
Thomas. Jacobus Montagne,
Maria Pell, syn h. v.
Eva. Willem Vredenburg,
Jannetje Van der Beek.
Maria. Edward Willith, Rachel
Van Dyk, jonge dr.
Annaatje. Erederik Fyn, Margrietje
Fyn, jonge dr.
Daniel. Johannes Van Vorst,
'Elisabet Borkels.
Margrieta. ) Albertus Tfebout, Elisa-
Catharina. f bet Bogert, Jan Bogert,
twee lingen. Antje Peek, syn h. v.
12
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.,
A" 1732. OUDERS.
Sept : 1. Johannes Cavelier,
Cathalyntje A n -
dries.
A d r i a a n Bancker,
Elisabet Van Taar-
ling.
George Lamb,
Hendrikje Meyer.
3-
6.
10.
>3-
17.
24.
27-
Octob
[518.]
*5-
Allard Antony, Su-
sanna Laurier.
Jan Ariaanse, Tan-
neke Waldron.
John Waldron, Elisa-
bet Breestede.
Thomas Dwiet, Cat-
lyntje Biddue.
Cornells Bogert, Cor-
nelia Ver Diayn.
Jan Blom, Rebecca
Corsen.
Matthys Oudt, Mary
Filibeen.
Albertus T i e b o u t ,
Cornelia Bogert.
Richard Van Dam,
Cornelia Beekman.
Isaac Cal j o \v , An-
genietje Boljew.
Frans P i e t e r s e ,
Rachel Eekes.
. Marten Bant, Jen-
neke Buys.
Francis Child, Cor-
nelia Viele.
Willem Vredenburg,
Catharina Schott.
Harman R u t gers
Junior, Elisabet
Bensen.
Hendrik Rii tg ers
Catharina De Pey-
srer.
Johannes Abramse,
Elisabet Bosch.
Isaac Boke, Bregje
Romme.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Egbertje. \ P i e t e r Bandt, Cornelia
Petrus. f Bos, Pieter Bent-
twee lingen. h u y s e n , Margrietje
Andriese.
Neeltje. Christoffel Bancker, Elisa-
beth Hoogland, s. h. v.
Martinus. Johannes Lamb, Jannetje
Lamb, h. v. Van Roelof
Van Mepelen.
Johannes. Nicolaas Antony, Judith
Braidsjer.
Maria. Abraham Alsteyn,
Marritje, syn h. v.
Cornelia. Gerardus Waldron, Re-
becca Onkelbag.
Joseph. Nicolaas Stokholm, Elisa-
bet Biddue.
Hendrik. Hendrik Bogert, Sara
Elzeworth.
Jacob. Jacob Corsen, Margrietje
Blom, h. v. v., Petrus
Kip.
Elsje. Johan W'n. Crieger, Elsje
Christien, syn h. v.
Theiinis. Theiinis Tiebout, Marytje
Van de Water, s. h. v.
Nicolaas. Wilhelmus Beekman,
Catharina de Lanoy,
syn h. v.
Elisabet. Abraham Leynsen, Char-
rite Ma k pees.
Jan. Johannes Maundeviel,
Antje Pieters.
Willemyntje. Pieter Bandt, Marritje
Hoppe.
Cornelia. Herman Winckler, Geer-
triiyde syn h. v.
Jannetje. Joost Van Seysen, Ju-
dith Van Seysen, \vede.
Harmanus. Harman us Rutgers,
Catharina de Meyer,
s. h. v.
Catharina. Harmanus Rutgers,
Catharina de Meyer.
Susanna. William Smith, Anna
Bosch, jonge dr.
Johannes. Aarnoiit Romme, Ja-
comyntje Hassink.
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A" 1732. OUDERS. KINDERS.
Octob : Steven Bayard, Alida Stephanus.
22.
2y.
Nov
Vetch
Abraham
Fish.
Philippiis Go el e t ,
Catharina Boelen.
Kip, Sara Jesse.
Isaac.
Hendrik Bras, Mar-
grietje Helling.
Johannes Deenemar-
ken, Rachel Beek-
man.
George Elzeworth,
Jannetje Miserol.
John James, Maria
Pitt.
Nicolaas Van Taar-
ling, E 1 i sa b e t
Richard, obeit.
Johan Daniel Smith,
Marie E 1 i 3 a be t
Hetter.
Petrus Montagne,
Jannetje Dyer.
Petrus De Milt,
Femmetje Valen-
tyn.
Petnis Rutgers, He-
lena Hoo°:land.
Hendrik.
Maria.
Jan.
John.
Maria.
Willem.
Rebecca.
Isaac.
Harmanus.
Laurens Lammerse, Johannes.
Jannetje Mag-
danel.
W i 1 h e 1 m u s Beek- Aaltje.
man, Martha Matt.
Simon C r e g i e r , Johannes.
Anna Van Oort.
1. Wynant Van Zandt, Tobias.
Catharina Ten
Eyck.
5. Pieter Vliereboom, Geertruyd.
Jannetje Van de
Voort.
Johannes Van Beekman.
B u u r e n , Maria
Meyer.
13. Johannes Ten Eyck, Johannes.
Antje Drinkwater.
GETUYGEN.
Philip Van K o r tl an d,
Geertruyd Bayard, h. v.
Van Pieter Kemble.
Pieter Van Ranst, Sara
Kierstede, syn h. v.
Hendricus Boelen, Catha-
rina Waldron, \vede.
Van Is. Boelen.
Hendricus Meyer, Geer-
truyd Rom me, s. h. v.
Jurian W i t v e 1 d , Maria
Wi t veld , h. v. Van
Thomas Goodled.
Willem Elzeworth, Jan-
netje Elzeworth, jong.
dr.
Jacob Pitt, Susanna An-
driese.
Floris Van T a a r 1 i n g ,
Elisabet Garling, h. v.
Van Paulus Richard.
Willem Crollius, Maria
Romper.
Thomas Montagne, Re-
becca Briant, syn h. v.
Antony de Milt, Maria
Schamp, syn h. v.
Charles Crooke, Elisabet
Hoogland, h. v. Van
Christ : Bancker.
Johannes Symonse, Jan-
netje Magdanel.
Johannes Deenemarken,
Rachel Lawrence.
William Whith Junior,
Maria Broun, syn h. v.
Coenraat Ten Eyck,
Tobias z., Elisabet Ten
Eyck, jonge dr.
Servaas Vliereboom,
Maria Schamp.
Hendricus Beekman,
Maria Van Buiiren,
jong. dr.
Daniel Donskom, Mar-
grietje Gilbert.
14 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.,
A' 1732.
Nov : 29.
[519.]
Dec
10.
20.
31-
OUDEKS.
Samson Pels, Maria
Bensing.
Willem Vredenburg,
Willemyntje Nak.
Abraham Van Wyk,
Catharina Pro-
voost.
Johannes Vreland,
Aaltje Van Dyk.
Andries B a r h e i t ,
Rachel Hoist.
P i e t e r Para Van
Zant, Sarah Wil-
lemse.
Cornells Kortregt,
Hester Canon.
David Gaden. Eliza-
beth Wol.
Abraham Keteltas,
Jan n nek e de
Honeur.
Jan Vos, Willemyntje
Hrouwer.
Isaac de M i 1 d t ,
Machteldje Van de
Voort.
Willem Hoppe,
Elizabeth Van
Orden.
A 1733-
7-
Jan
10.
14.
J. Pieter Zenger,
Catharina Maulin.
Pieter Lanmerse,
Maria Bennet.
Jacob Pit, Aaltje
Oosterloom.
Jan Peek, Hesther
Dykman.
Abraham de Peyster,
Margareta van
Cortlant.
J. Willem £)Ugeldt,
A. Maria Eren-
styn.
Hendricus Brestede,
Geertje Wesselze.
Willem de Peyster,
Margarita Roze-
veldt.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Maria. Evert Pels, Catharina
Bensing, wede Van
Lucas Sjoert.
Angenietje. Johannes Vredenbiir'g,
Catharina Nak, h. v.
Van Teiinis de Clerk.
Elisabet. Christoffel Bancker,
E 1 i s a b e t Hoogland,
s. h. v.
Johannes. Icabod Loiitet, Elisabet
Van Dyk, s. h. v.
Rachel. Jan Stevens, Eytje
Stevens.
Maria. Frederik Willemse, Maria
Waldron, z. h. v.
Cornelis. Evert Byvank, Maria
Canon, z. h. v.
Elizabeth. Mattheiis Wol, Maria
Wol.
Abraham. G e r r i t Keteltas, Maria
Klok.
Anna. David Gaden, Elizabeth
Wol, z. h. v.
Maria. Antony de Mildt, Maria
Schamp.
Wessel. Johannes Van Orden,
Adriaantje Webbers.
Frederyk. Frederyk Bekker, Maria
Maulin.
Maria. Jacob Pit, Aafje Lam-
merse.
Willem. Pieter Lammerse, Maria
Bennet.
Jan. Thomas Ellin, Cathe-
lyntje Dykman.
Eva. Adolph Philipse, Annatje
Van Cortlandt.
Anna Maria. An to n i u s Caspar, A
Maria Hooftmanin.
Annatje. Folkert Oothoiiwdt,
Maria Brestede.
Heylte. Jan Rozeveldt, Heiltje
Olferts
1 89 i.J Pruyn Family — American Branch. jj-
PRUYN FAMILY— AMERICAN BRANCH.
By John V. L. Pruyn.
(Continued from Vol. XXI., October. 1890, page 177.)
387-
(387) Oliver Thatford6 Pruyn (Willianf, Matthew*, Harmcrt, Arenf,
Frans Jansen1), of South Frederic ksbutgh, Ontario, born there Now
18, 1816; studied at the Grammar school, Bath; subsequently took up
farming, in which he is still engaged ; is a member of the Church of
England and in 1864 was appointed, by the Crown, Sheriff of the
county of Lennox and Addington and has held the position ever since.
He was m. at Adolphustown by the Rev. Job Deacon, Jan. 31,
1842, to Elizabeth Rickerson Dorland ; b. there July 8, 1819, dau. of
Thomas I. Dorland and Elizabeth Trumpour of Adolphustown ; and
has issue by this marriage:
431 Mary Elizabeth, b. July 30, 1844, at South Fredericksburgh, bp.
at St. Paul's, Oct. 6, 1844; d. there March 17 (bur. at St.
Paul's. March 18), 1845.
432 Jemima Jane, b. Nov. 9, 1846, at South Fredericksburgh, bp.
at St. Paul's, Aug. 8, 1847 ; d. there Jan. 3, 1850, bur. at
St. Paul's.
433 Thomas Dorland, m. Mary Amelia Campbell.
388.
(388) Matthew William6 Pruyn of Napanee, Ontario, Canada ( William?,
Matthew*, HarmerP, Arenl-, F"rans Jansen1), born Oct. 22, 18 19, at
Fiedericksburgh, Ontario ; received his education in the common schools
at Fredericksburgh and since then has always been in mercantile life.
From 1836 to 1840 he lived at Woodstock, Ontario, and from 1840 to
1862 at Brantford where for two years he was a member of the Town
Council, and in 1858 was Mayor. Upon leaving Brantford in 1862 he
travelled in the western part of America and upon the Pacific slope, before
the days of the railroad in those sections, returning by way of Panama in
1864 and settling in his native county (Lennox), where he has since been
a merchant at Napanee. From 1864 to 1871 he was Deputy Sheriff of
the county of Lennox and Addington. In 1884 he stood for member
of the Dominion House of Commons as successor to Sir John McDonald,
of whom he is an ardent supporter, but was defeated by four votes. He
protested the election and his opponent was unseated. ' Mr. Pruyn stood
again for Member of Parliament in 1885, and was elected by a majority
of fifty-eight votes.
He married Dec. 13, 1843, Mary Margaret Kerby, b. June 26, 1823,
dau. of William Kerby and Margaret Smith of Brantford, Ontario, and
has issue :
434 John Ross, b. at Brantford, Sept. 13, 1845; for several years in
mercantile life and identified with lailroad interests; has been
Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Co.; resides at Montreal; married Oct. 13, 1870,
I 6 Pruyn Family — American Branch. [Jan-,
Alice Wily, b. Oct. 20, 1845, dau. of Lieut. Col. Thomas
Wily, at one time Director of Stores, Militia Dep't, Ottawa,
and Harriet Cunningham. No issue :
435 William Kerb}', m. Annie Elizabeth Grange.
390.
George Ham, b. April 19, 18 12, son of John Ham and Esther
Bradshaw of Fredericksburgh, Lennox Co., Ontario, married. March 22,
1840 (390) Eleanor6 Pruyn ( William5, Matthew*, Harmen3, Arent2, Frans
Jansen1), b. Jul}1 15, 1823, near Bath, Ontario, bp. by Rev. Job Deacon,
Aug. 23, 1823, at Adolphustown.
Mr. Ham resides at Conway, Ontario ; is a farmer; member of the
Church of England ; has been Councillor and Reeve, several times, of
the Electoral Division of South Fredericksburgh, Ont., and has had issue
by this marriage.
William Thatford, b. June 28, 1842, near Bath, Ontario ; m. at St.
Paul's Church, Fredericksburgh, Ont., Oct. 23, 187 3, Eliza Neilson,
dau. of Thomas Neilson and Elizabeth Downey of South Fredericks-
burgh, Ont., and has issue :
i. George Thomas Ham, b. Sept. 2, 1874, at Conway,
ii. William James Ham, b. May 5, 1878, at Conway.
Martha, b. Nov. 7, 1844, near Bath, Ont., m. at Conway, Ont.,
March 23, 1869, Elias Price, studied at Bath Academy and at
Military School, Kingston, son of Elias Price and Anne Robinson
of Bath, Ontario, and has issue :
i. Reginald Grant Price, b. July 24, 1872, at Adolphus-
town, Ont.
Mary, b. June 23, 1847, near Bath, Ontario, m. Sept. 29, 1873, at
Conway, Ont., John George McTavish Ross, of Montreal, chemist,
educated in Scotland ; died January 30, 1889, son of George Ross,
member of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Mary McTavish,
and has had issue :
i. Donald McTavish Ross, b. Dec, 26, 1874, at Bath, Ont. ;
d. there May 21, 1875.
ii. Roderick McKenzie Ross, b. Aug. 30, 1876, at Bath, Ont. ;
d. there Sept. 16, 1876.
Jemima, b. at Conway, Ont., Nov. 12, 1849 ! d. Jan- I2> '852.
Jane Elizabeth, b. at Conway, Ont., Feb. 3, 1854 ; still living there ;
has kindly furnished the information relating to this family.
392-
(392) Abraham Steel6 Pruyn (Simons, Matthew*, Narmcn3, Arent2,
Frans Jansen'), b. in Marysburgh, Prince Edward Co., Ontario, Dec.
16, 1826 ; died at Erie, Pa., March 11, 1869 I received a public school
education and entered upon a course of medical studies but did not
pursue them. He was a member of the First Baptist Church at Erie
and was captain of a vessel upon the lakes.
He m. Dec. 24, 1854, Harriet Margaret Nowland, b. May 7, 1837,
at New Boston, Wayne Co., Michigan, dau. of William Nowland and
Elizabeth Rumsey, and had issue :
436 Charles Whitney, m. Susan Ryder.
1 89 1.] Pruyn Family — American Branch. \j
437 Mary Elizabeth, b. Feb. 8, 1858; d. Aug. 23, 1858.
438 May, b. May 1, i860 ; m. Frederick Simon.
439 Harriet Margaret, b. July 29, 1863 > m- Ferdinand Knobloch.
440 Rhoda Jane, b. Nov. 29, 1866 ; m. her cousin William Nowland.
441 Sarah Louise, b. Jan. 21, 1869; m. James Vernon.
Mrs. Pruyn married secondly Horace M. Parker of Erie.
394-
(395) Matthew6 Pruyn (Simons, Matthew4, Harmen7, Arent2, Frans
Jansen'), b. in Marysburgh, Prince Edward Co., Ontario, Nov. 9, 1832 ;
studied in the public schools at Painesville, Ohio ; has held the position
of Constable ; is a member of the Presbyterian church, and resides at
Erie, Pa. He m. Aug. 10, 1863, at Brownstown, Wayne Co., Michigan,
Angeline Bondy, b. in Windsor, Canada, dau. of August Bondy (died
at Brownstown, Jan. 27, 1854), and Julia Borrow (died at Brownstown
Jan. 11, 1867). By this marriage Mr. Pruyn has issue:
442 Mary Margaret, b. at Brownstown, April ifc, 1865 ; m. Charles
Hampe.
443 Lucy Ann, b. at Brownstown, Jan. 23, 1867 ; m. Charles E.
Williams.
444 Florence, b. at Brownstown, April 19, 1868 ; d. at Erie,
Nov. 12, 1870.
445 Catharine, b. at Erie, March 9, 1870.
446 Daniel De Forest, b. at Erie, Feb. 17, 1878.
397-
(398) De Forest6 Pruyn (Simons, Matthew*, Harmen?, Arent-, Frans
Jansen1), b. Jan. 30, 1841, at Fairpnrt, Ohio; studied in the public
schools at Painesville, Ohio ; is a member of the Presbyterian church
and a captain on the lakes ; resides at Erie, Pa. He married April 6,
1877, at Benson, Swift Co., Minnesota, Mary M. Yeakel, b. at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, about 1859, dau. of Conrad and Margaret Yeakel of Klickitat
Valley, State of Washington. By this marriage there is issue :
447 George Matthew, b. before 1879, near Appleton, Swift Co.,
Minnesota. *
448 Ira Burke, b. at same place, Sept. 15, 1880.
401.
(401) William Francis6 Pruyn (Matthejvs, Matthew4, Harmen3, Arent-,
Frans Jansefi1), born Aug. 18, 1837, in Belleville, Canada, lived for ten
years in the town of Clayton, Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; has been a soldier,
sailor, and farmer, and now resides at Pipestone, Berrien Co., Michigan ;
married at Batavia, Illinois, Amelia Busha, or Bushey, daughter of
Charles Busha, or Bushey, and Mary La Mont of St. Clair, Michigan, and
has had issue :
449 William, b. at Neenah, Wisconsin, April 5, 1858.
450 Jane, b. at Vinland, Wisconsin, March 28, i860.
451 Rosa, b. at Vinland, July 29, 1862.
452 Arthur Grant, b. at Winneconne. Wisconsin, May 28, 1865.
453 Francis, b. at Benton Harbor, Mich., May 25, 1868.
454 Susan, b. at Benton Harbor, March 20, 1872.
2
I 8 Pruyn Family — American Branch. [Jan.,
455 Charles, b. at Benton Harbor, Oct. 19, 1875.
456 Alice, b. at Benton Harbor, March 4, 1877.
457 Horace, b. at Benton Harbor, July 9, 1881.
458 Margaret, b. at Benton Harbor, Jan. 1, 1883 ; d. at Pipestone,
April 9, 1889.
459 Morris, b. at Pipestone, Mich., Sept. 3, 1885.
460 Laura, b. at Pipestone, Sept. 30, 1887.
461 Lena, b. at Pipestone, Aug. 3, 1889.
404.
(404) Theodore Franklin6 Pruyn (Matthew'5, Matthew*, Harmen3, A rent7,
Frans Jansen1), b. in Jefferson Co.. N. Y., May 2, 1842 ; married July
4, 1 860, Mariette Pickle, at Fremont, Waupaca Co., Wisconsin, dau. of
John H. Pickle and Maria Eliza Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. Pruyn are
members of the Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints and live
near Davis City, Iowa. They have had issue :
462 Ravenna, b. Aug. 18, 1861 ; m. May 2, 1881, Thomas O'Connell.
463 Edith, b. Oct. 30, 1862 ; m. Sept. 12, 1883, Alonzo Petrey.
464 Emma, h. Oct. 18, 1864, at Winneconne, Wisconsin ; m. Jan.
10, 1886, Zatta (? ) Hagen.
465 Willard, b. Feb. 9, 1866; d. Feb. 23, 1866, at Winneconne.
466 Mella, b. Feb. 14, 1867 : d. July 3, 1867, at Winneconne.
467 Norman, b. June 9, 1868, at Winneconne.
468 John Matthew, b. Feb. 4, 1869, at Winneconne.
469 Jesse, b. Nov. 28, 187 1, at Black Creek, Wisconsin.
470 Hurty (?), b. Aug. 10, 1873, at Black Creek; d. May 30,
1879.
471 Harry, b. Nov. 3, 1875, at Black Creek; d. July 12, 1879.
472 Sidney, b. Aug. 5, 1879, at Black Creek.
473 Eliza, b. Nov. 10, 1881, in Iowa.
474 Silva. b. Sept. 8, 1883; d. Nov. 10, 1888.
475 Gilbert, b. June 16, 1886.
476 Iowa (a son), b. April 4, 1887.
408.
(408) Peter Van Schaack7 Pruyn (John Matthias6, Francis5, John*,
Francis3, Arent% Frans Jansen1), physician, b. at Kinderhook, Nov.
19, 1 84 1 ; studied at the District School and at the Kinderhook Acad-
emy ; entered Union College, 1858, member of the A A $ Society,
grad A. B., i860, as member of the & B K Society, and Salutatorian
of his class, very high honors ; grad. M. D., at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, 1863. ^n ^71 he studied medicine in
Vienna, Austria. He lives at Kinderhook, and is a leading citizen of
the place ; is a deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church ; trustee, 1878, of
the Kinderhook Academy, and is now President of the Board of Trustees,
a director in the National Union Bank of Kinderhook, Health officer
of the village. In 1886 he was chosen vice-president for Kinderhook of
the Holland Society, which position he stdl holds. He is a member of
the New York State Medical Society, and as a physician stands very high.
He married at Kinderhook, Oct. 3, 1877, Mary Barnard Tobey, b. Feb.
1 89 1.] Pruyn Family — American Branch. jg
28, 1849, at Kinderhook, dau. of William Henry Tobey and Caroline
Wild, his second wife.
William Henry Tobey, the father of Mrs. Pruyn, was born in Hud-
son, Columbia Co., N. Y. , Jan. 1, 1799. He studied at Union, class of
1815, entering at the age of fourteen, and at Williams. He studied law
at Kinderhook with James Van der Poel, and was admitted to the Bar in
1820. He began the practice of his profession in Lebanon, N.Y., but re-
moved to Kinderhook. He was member of Assembly, 1837, Surrogate of
Columbia Co., 1841-45, State Senator, 1861-63, and held important
local positions at Kinderhook, among them director of the National
Union Bank from 1853 till his death, and President of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Kinderhook Academy. He died May 15, 1878. His first
wife was Miss Louisa Piatt.
By his marriage with Miss Tobey, Peter Van Schaack Pruyn has issue :
477 John Bayard, b. at Kinderhook, Oct. 14, 1882.
478 Julia Carville, b. at Kinderhook, Dec. 25, 1884.
411.
(411) Henry7 Pruyn (John6, John I.s, John*, Francis3, Areni2, Frans
Jansen1). ofNiles, Michigan, b. June 29, 1829, at Stuyvesant, Columbia
Co., N.Y. ; m. May 22, 1850, Margaret Anna Harder, dau. of William
Nicholas Harder and Jane Elizabeth Horton, of Kinderhook, N.Y. ;
and has had issue :
479 John, b. March 23, 185 1.
480 Eva Phillip, b. Mav 13, 1853 ; d. Oct. 1, 1884.
481 Louise Fairfield, b. Sept. 2, 1855.
482 Catherine Maria, b. Nov. 3, 1857.
483 Jennie Harder, b. Aug. 5, i860.
484 Sarah Frances, b. May 1. 18^4 ; d. Sept. 24, 1865.
485 Lydia Bain, b. April 3, 1867 ; d. March 13, 1873.
414.
(414) David John7 Pruyn (Abraham6, John 7.5, John*, Francis*, Arent2,
Frans Jansen1), of " Uplands," Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario,
Canada, was born April 4, 1846, at Picton, where he was baptized Sept.
13. 1846, by the Rev. Wm. Macaulay at the Church of St. Mary Mag-
dalene (David Lockwood Fairfield, Judge of the Couniy Court ; David
Barker Stevenson ; Emily Spencer Fairfield}. He was educated at Picton
and at the Toronto University, receiving the degrees of B.A. and M.A.
He subsequently studied law, was a member of the Church of England,
and was Warden at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Picton. He m.
there Nov. 27, 1867, Georgina Ellen Ann Pope, b. at Kingston, Ont.,
Sept. 16, 1846, dau. of Rev. John Pope, chaplain to the forces at Fort
Henry, Kingston, and Maria Augusta Smith, who came from England.
He died in Rome, Italy, April 2, 1876, and was buried July 15,
1876, in Glen wood Cemetery, Picton. He had issue by this marriage :
486 David Bertram, b. Jan. 13, 1872, at Picton ; bp. there July 14,
1872 (Clara Louisa Maria Fairfield Ross, grandmother, David
Lockwood Fairfield).
487 Louisa Georgina Pope, b. March 8, 1874, at Picton ; bp. and
d. May 1, 1874.
20 Pruyn Family — American Branch. [Jan.,
488 Emily Georgina, b. Aug. 27, 1875, at Picton ; bp. Oct. 24,
1875.
422.
(422) Robert Thomas7 Pruyn [Bartholomew6, John 1. 5, John*, Fran-
cis1, Artnl2, Frans Janseti1), b. at Kinderhook, April 8, 1852 ; resides at
Great Barrington, Mass.; married 1882 at Peekskill, N. V., Helen Joseph,
b. at Hyde Park, N. Y., March 26, 1856, dau. cf Stephen B. Joseph and
Margaret De Groff of Peekskill, and has issue :
489 Elizabeth Marion, b. March 13, i88r>, at Great Barrington.
423.
(423) John Isaac7 Pruyn (Bartholomew6, John I.s, John*, Francis*,
ArenP, Frans Jansen\) b. at Kinderhook, Dec. 29, 1853 ; studied at
the Kinderhook Academy ; now resides at Yonkers, N. Y., where he is a
merchant, member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and captain of the
Fourth Separate Company, National Guard, S. N. Y.; married, May iy,
1875, Mary Scott, b. Nov. 16, 1854, in New York, dau. of John Charles
Scott and Hannah Ann Reeder of New Brunswick, New Jersey ; and has
issue, all born at Yonkers :
490 John Williard, b. Sept. 9. 1876.
491 Robert Scott, b. Aug. 9, 1880.
492 Alma T., b. Oct. 3, 1889.
433-
(433) Thomas Dorland7 Pruyn, of Napanee, Ontario, Canada,
[Oliver Thatford6, William5, Mattheiv*, Harmen3, Arent2, Frans Jansen1) ;
is a member of the Church of England ; was educated at the Grammar
School at Bath, Ontario, and at the University at Toronto ; was appointed
in March, 1872, Deputy Sheriff of Lennox and Addington — a position he
still holds. He married at Napanee, Sept. 14, 1869, Mary Amelia
Campbell, b. Feb. 20, 1850, at North Fredericksburg, Ontario, dau. of
Alexander Campbell and Amelia Brown of Napanee. He has had issue
by this marriage :
493 Alexander Thatford, b. Sept. 8, 1871.
494 Edith Campbell, b. Sept. 12, 1874 ; d. April 23, 1875.
435.
(435) William Kerby7 Pruyn, of Napanee, Ontario {Matthew William6,
William5, Matthew*, Harmen3, Arent2, Frans Jansen1), b. Feb. 9, 1S53 ;
he is in business with his father ; he m., Aug. 30, 1880, Annie Elizabeth
Grange, b. June 23, 1861, dau. of John Thomas Grange, late member of
the Provincial Parliament, and Jane Ann Scales of Napanee. He has
issue by this marriage :
495 William Grange, b. Feb. 20. 1882.
496 Alice Grange, b. June 10, 1885.
497 Harold Grange, b. Sept. 25, 1889.
436.
(436) Charles Whitney7 Pruyn [Abraham6, Simon*, Matthew*, Harmen3,
Arent2, Frans yansen1), lake captain of Cleveland, Ohio, b. at Gibraltar,
e t Q/r/Y/I^-J
1891.] Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. 2 I
Wayne Co., Michigan, Dec. 16, 1855; m. at Cleveland, Aug. 5, 1884,
Susan Ryder, b. Dec. 11, 1861, near Hastings. Richland Co., Ohio, dau.
of George Washington Ryder and Elizabeth Jane Charles, and has had
issue :
498 Simon Abraham, b. Julv 9, 1885, at Cleveland, Ohio; d. there
April 4, 1888.
499 Harriet Elizabeth, b. March 4, 1 838, at Cleveland.
MAHLON DICKERSON OK NEW JERSEY, INDUSTRIAL
PIONEER AND OLD TIME PATRIOT.
By Josiah C. Pumpelly.
The nineteenth century is fast waning, and we are forgetting the men
who laid the foundations if they did not make its history. Our Civil
War seems to have closed a former volume, and to open new pages for
our inspection. This may be no more than we should expect, yet we
have good reason to regret that the former heroes of our nation should
pass so soon into an unmerited oblivion. There is no happy career for a
man or a people that shall be unmindful of its predecessors, or of those
to whom the present greatness and prosperity are due. It is the prov-
ince of the annalist, the biographer and the historian, to revive the old
memories, to bring the deeds and personalities of former years to our
cognizance, and to preserve them for future regard and contemplation.
Among the men whom the citizens of New Jersey, as well as of the
entire nation, should delight to honor, Mahlon Dickerson must always
be awarded a high rank. Thougn never brilliant as an orator, he excelled
in the other qualities of a public man. He was broad of conception,
comprehensive, of sound judgment, and energetic in execution. In short,
he possessed in an admirable degree the endowments of the statesman,
and he exemplified them through a long and honorable career. When
we call to mind the great names that New Jersey has enrolled in the
archives of the Republic, it is no small testimony to declare that Mahlon
Dickerson was worthy of a place in the number.
His ancestry appears to have been of the genuine Puritan stock. In
the register of the Massachusetts Genealogical Society, we find a record
bearing date May 10, 1637, enumerating emigrants from Yarmouth in
England and reciting as follows :
"The examination of Beniemen Cooper of Bramton, husbandman
aged 50 years, * * * * his sister aged 48 years, and two servants, John
Kilin and ffileman Dickerson, are all desirous to passe to New England
to inhabitt. "
This "ffileman Dickerson " did "passe to New England " that same
year. John Young, the minister of the little party, was the leader.
They came in the ship "Mary Ann of Yarmouth," of which M. Goose
was master. In the record of the Genealogical Society Philemon Dicker-
son is twice mentioned, once as having married Mary the daughter of
Mr. Payne, and again as "the son-in-law of widow Paine." The emi-
grants arrived safely at Salem, Massachusetts Bay, and were duly received
2 2 Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. [Jan->
as members of the colony. Land was granted them according to custom,
Dickerson's homestead being twenty acres. This constituted him a
"freeman." He of course had to be a church-member to be a full
citizen.
A little while afterward came a person from Long Island holding out
flattering inducements for emigration. The errand was distasteful to the
leaders of the colony at Salem, but it seems to have succeeded with some
of the inhabitants. Our Puritan forefathers certainly brought with them
to the New World an ardent passion for owning large tracts of land. The
later colonists at Salem, many of them, resolved to go to Long Island.
Mr. Young went with them.
Philemon Dickerson was of the number. They emigrated in 1643,
purchased land from the natives, and founded the town of Southold.
" Goodman Dickerson " was not long in becoming a prominent man
among the settlers. He was owner of a handsome house in the village,
and several farms in other parts of the town. He was a tanner, and his
calling appears to have been lucrative.
He lived about thirty years at Southold. His will, bearing date June
20, .1665, was recorded May 8, 1672. Mr. John Young, his pastor
and life-long friend, was a subscribing witness. It mentions three sons,
calling two of them, Thomas and Peter, by name ; and also " too dafters "
to whom he makes bequests to be paid them " when the com of the age
of one and twenty." He gave the bulk of his estate to his wife during
her life or widowhood, after which it was to be disposed to his children.
He made his wife Mary sole executrix. At the time of his death he
was seventy-four years of age.
Peter Dickerson succeeded to his father, and being diligent in business,
and of a thrifty turn of mind, increased the property. The Dickerson
family remained in Southold till 1741, almost a hundred years. They
belonged to the First Congregational Church, the pastor of which, the
Rev. Epher Whitaker, graphically describes them as "all and always re-
spectable, but not specially eminent."
Peter, the son of Thomas Dickerson, nephew of the first Peter, seems
to have given sign of the talent and breadth of view which afterward char-
acterized his family. Leaving Southold in 1 74 1, he removed with his
three brothers to Morris County, New Jersey, where he became an exten-
sive land-owner. He early took part in the political controversies of the
time, and was active in arousing and organizing opposition to the encroach-
ments of the British crown and colonial government. His house was
the rallying-place for the patriots, and he was recognized early as a leader.
On the 9th of January, 1775, he was appointed a "Committee of Obser-
vation " for Morris County ; and on the 1st of May ensuing he was chosen
a delegate to the Provincial Congress. On the 7th of February, 1776, he
was commissioned as captain in the 3d Battalion, 1st Establishment of
New Jersey, and at his own expense equipped his company for active
service.
His more distinguished grandson, Mahlon Dickerson, was born at
Hanover Neck, New Jersey, April 17, 1770, when those controversies were
at their height, before actual conflict. He was the eldest of five children,
who all excelled in similar respects. He was fitted for college in Morris-
town, as we learn from the following memorandum in Mr. Joseph Lewis's
diary :
1 89 1.] Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. 2%
" Monday Nov. 27, 1786, Jonathan Dickerson's son (Mahlon) began
to board at 7s a week." He graduated at Princeton in 1789, after which he
engaged in the study of the law, and was licensed as an attorney in 1793.
The next year he served in Captain Kinney's cavalry in the expedition to
suppress the "Whiskey Rebellion" in Western Pennsylvania. After
this he and his brothers removed to Philadelphia, where he continued his
legal studies in the office of Mr. James Miller, and was admitted to the bar
in 1797. In those times a man practised law in the lower tribunals years
before admission to the higher courts.
He soon began a political career, and was elected a member of the
City Council. In 1802 he was appointed, together with A. J. Dallas,
John Sergeant, and Joseph Clay — all leading supporters of Mr. Jefferson
— Commissioner in Bankruptcy. In 1805 he became Adjutant-General of
the State. About this time he received advantageous offers to remove to
New Orleans, in the newly acquired Orleans territory. Personal and
family reasons, it is said, induced him to decline. Perhaps these are ex-
plained by the following extract from a letter to his sister, dated January
1, 1805 :
" If I can but get a wife in the course of the winter to please me, I
shall rejoice I did not leave the place. There is a lady in this city I have
serious thoughts of making love to ; but she knows nothing of the matter,
and I suspect never will. However, with the blessing of God, I hope
another year will not find me an old bachelor."
Whether from the traditional " faint heart" or the preengaged affec-
tions of the one on whom he had fixed his wishes, the fond plan of this
" old bachelor "of thirty-five years seems to have gone "aglee." Mahlon
Dickerson never married. He was always gentle and courteous to women,
as well as tender and affectionate to children ; but no wife ever shared his
home.
He resigned the Adjutant-Generalship in 1808 to accept the position
of recorder of Philadelphia. In 18 10 his father, who, in partnership with
a Mr. Le Fever, owned the Succasanna iron mines, died, leaving his ex-
tensive estate to be settled and carried on. Mahlon purchased the c'aims
of the other heirs, and transferred his residence to Succasanna. He hail
no love for the profession of the law, and now cheerfully abandoned it.
He continued to manage the works with energy and diligence, and they
became very profitable.
He maintained his lively interest in public affairs, and became a polit-
ical leader in the State. He was elected to the Legislature in 181 1 and
again in 181 2.* The year after he succeeded the Hon. W. S. Pennington
as associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. In 18 14 his
*The New Jersey Legislature having granted to Messrs. Aaron, Ogden, and Daniel
Dod the exclusive privileges previously held by John Filch for navigating steamboats
on the waters of New Jersey, a correspondence ensued between Fulton and Dickerson,
the latter being on the legislative committee to report upon the matter. Under date
of January 8, 1814, Mahlon Dickerson writes to Mr. Fulton at length, concluding
as follows : "I think you will find no disposition in our legislature to protect any of
our citizens in the use of your improvement without your permission ; for generally
they think, as I sincerely do, that but for your talents and perseverance, the science
of steamboat navigation would still have remained where it was ten years ago,
buried under a heap of obloquy and ridicule. It is very evident that the difference
between your boat and that of Mr. Fitch is the difference between a successful and
an abortive experiment, which is all the difference in the world."
2 a. Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. [Jan«>
name was proposed for United States senator, but withdrawn ; and in
October, 1815, he was elected Governor by the two houses of Legislature,
in joint meeting, which was the former mode of electing that officer. Mr.
Dickerson received the unanimous vote. At that time the Governor was,
by virtue of his office, Chancellor of the State. He was chosen again in
1 8 16, but resigned the year following, having being elected to the Senate
of the United States.
In this position he exhibited the same devotion to public business
which he displayed in private affairs. From the day he took his seat in
the Senate till he retired from it in 1833, a period of sixteen years, he was
but three times absent from his place. He was reelected to a second term
with little opposition in November, 1822. This was during "the era of
good feeling," in which acrimonious partisan politics seemed to have died
out. But in 1828 all this had been changed, and a political campaign of
most intense bitterness was carried on through the country. Old Feder-
alists, rather than support Mr. Adams, joined the new Democratic party.
Neighbors were estranged, and even the new President took office in 1829,
exasperated to the highest pitch against his opponents.
The Legislature of New Jersey had been carried at the election by the
party opposed to the incoming administration. The senator elected two
years before had resigned his seat, and the term of Mr. Dickerson was
about to expire. Successors to both were to be chosen. The Hon.
Samuel L. Southard, then Secretary of the Navy, and a Dr. Ewing
were rival candidates for the short term. The excitement ran high, and
each candidate counted confidently upon aid from the Jackson men. Ten
ballots were had without a choice, when a Mr. Potts offered a resolution
declaring Mr. Southard ineligible on the ground, that, being a cabinet
officer, he was not a resident of the State. The Jackson men united with
the supporters of Dr. Ewing and secured its adoption. The friends of
Mr. Southard, in a rage, gave votes enough for Mr. Dickerson to elect
him for the four years' term. The Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was
chosen to the other seat.
The scheme was next set on foot to make Mr. Dickerson the Demo-
cratic-Republican candidate for Vice-President. He was regarded as a
representative man, both as a patriot and a politician. He had uniformly
ranked among the foremost members of the Jeffersonian school, and was
perhaps the most efficient man in New Jersey in the struggles of the Dem-
ocratic party, in promoting its success. He had been honored by his
own State by the stations of judge, governor, and United States senator.
He had filled these places acceptably.
A leading Democrat of Ohio thus summarized his career :
"As chairman of the Committee of Manufactures in the Senate, his
whole energies and the most untiring devotion of his abilities have been
directed to the cause of national industry — not blindly, not with the sub-
servient views of stimulating an excitement or promoting partisan objects ;
but with an enlarged national patriotism looking to the permanent pros-
pects of the country, independent of the temporary fluctuations of popular
opinion.
"To him likewise is the praise due of originating the plan for the
division of the surplus revenue among the States in the ratio of their
representation. This subject he introduced into the Senate several win-
ters ago, and advocated against the giants of both South Carolina and
1 89 1.] Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. 25
Virginia. The President, in adopting his views in his last message in
relation to this question, certainly paid him the highest compliment."
Other counsels ruled in the new Democratic party. Some of the
official acts of Martin Van Buren had made him obnoxious to leading
senators, and they defeated his confirmation as minister to England. He
then became the candidate for Vice-President, and Mr. Dickerson retired
to private life.
He had during the sixteen years of service as senator been an energetic
supporter of the protective policy, and his speeches were generally in its
support. He was a close student of the subject ; and if not as brilliant
or eloquent as others, he was not behind them in influence. Free trade
he denounced as " a system as visionary and impracticable as the ever-
lasting and universal pacification of the world."
He did not remain long in seclusion. He was popular at home, and
it was the boast that he held more public positions than any other citizen
in the township of Randolph. He was elected again to the Legislature in
1833, and after the close of the session was nominated and confirmed,
May 20, 1834, as minister to Russia. He declined the place, however,
because, it is said, he desired to remain at home to help Mr. Van Buren's
aspirations for the Presidency. He was then appointed Secretary of the
Navy, taking office June 30.
Few events occur to make the term of office of a cabinet minister
memorable. Mr. Dickerson more than others was a man of affairs ; and
such men, while they render the institutions of a country stable and per-
manent, do not often have the opportunity to " make history." Yet a
few occurrences served to make his term of office eventful.
On the 2d of July, 1834, the figure-head of the frigate Constitu-
tion was cut off by one S. VV. Drury. It was purely an exhibition of
political spite. At that time the official conduct of General Jackson was
subject to bitter animadversion. He had, in open disregard of law, re-
moved the public moneys on deposit in the United States Bank ; and the
Senate, unable otherwise to hold him to account, adopted the famous
resolutions of censure, which were expunged years afterward when the
Democrats obtained the majority. The Constitution, more familiarly
known among sailors by the name of "Old Ironsides," had been built
over at the Navy Yard, and the bust of the President placed on her as the
figure-head. This was distasteful to many, as she was manned by New
England sailors, with whom he was not a favorite. For some cause or
other the officials were remiss in effort to restore the mutilated symbol.
Secretary Dickerson finally set himself about the matter and held an ani-
mated correspondence with. Commodore J. D. Elliott. Setting aside all
subterfuge, he addressed a letter dated March 13, 1835, directing the
work to be done at once. This was effectual, and the Constitution was
quickly ready to sail upon a cruise.
Another occurrence was more sensational. On the 13th of January,
1835, as the President was walking in a procession, a crazy man named
Lawrence, the prototype of the later Guiteau, attempted to kill him.
Mr. Dickerson was walking with him and shared the danger. The man
was arrested, and Mr. Dickerson was a witness at the trial.
Life at Washington began to tell sadly upon his health. His letters
gave account of severe illness, which was aggravated by severer treatment.
The third week in October, 1836, he was compelled to leave the office
26 Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. [Jan.,
and go to his boarding-house. Here the physician, he remarks, "re-
lieved me of sixteen ounces of my blood, and filled my stomach with
medicine of all sorts — such as calomel, antimony, tartar, etc. For four
days I was horribly sick."
His brother, being at this time Governor of New Jersey, asked his
advice in regard to the Electoral College. The Hon. John Travers, a
representative in Congress, had been chosen an elector. He told him of
his own action when Governor in i S 1 6, when at the meeting of the elec-
tors he attended and appointed an elector who voted in place of an
absentee. He advised a similar course in this instance.
He did not recover his former health. As soon as he learned the cer-
tainty of Mr. Van Buren's election, he gave notice to him that he must
appoint a new Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Van Buren at once looked
over the diplomatic roll for the customary foreign appointment, but with-
out satisfaction. He informed Mr. Dickerson that it would not be
practicable to give him the mission to Russia. General Eaton, who was
in Spain, would probably return in less than two years, and if he would
wait he could have that place ; or, if diplomatic relations could be estab-
lished with Naples, he should go there. But the only place that could
be given immediately was an appointment as Charg6 d'Affaires to Belgium.
Mr. Van Buren assured Mr. Dickerson that he would find Brussels a
delightful residence, both on account of its climate and its situation in the
heart of Europe.
Mr. Dickerson was not willing to accept. He explains his motive as
punctilious. " If I refuse this, it will be merely as a matter of pride and
repugnance to taking a diplomatic appointment of a second grade."
He did net remain long in office. The sweeping financial disaster of
1837 endangered his private fortune, and his health threatened to give way
utterly. He resigned in 1838. Says he :
" I continued in the Navy Department until my health was nearly
destroyed. Duties had accumulated upon me which were unusual, and
which no former Secretary was obliged to perform. My health immedi-
ately improved on my leaving Washington, but was not entirely reestab-
lished under a year. On leaving my office I would have made a short visit
to Europe, but, having been absent from home for four years, my prop-
erty required my immediate attention for at least two or three years ; and,
although I should have retired from business, yet I felt no disposition to
do so, and, in fact, have been more actively engaged, and have done more
to increase the value of my estate, particularly of my iron mines, than I
have ever done before."
When he left Washington in July, 1838, the financial condition of the
country was depressed to the lowest degree, and he worked against power-
ful odds. He described the difficulty of getting on without money as
"horrible." He pushed business briskly, taking iron for ore with the
result of accumulating a large stock on hand that he had no hope of dis-
posing of for one or two years. The outcome, however, was most
fortunate. Writing to Mr. Van Buren, May 20, 1839, ne says :
" I am engaged in as much business as I can attend to. 1 am actively
employed from the rising to the setting of the sun. I have made a very
great and successful effort in carrying on my mine, and in a few months
shall be more a man of leisure than I ever have been. My health has
been uniformly good since I left Washington."
1 89 1. J Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. » 2 J
This leisure was somewhat disturbed, however, by political exigencies.
The terrible financial crisis of 1837 was followed by the defeat of the
Administration at the elections. The Congress chosen in 1838 was almost
equally balanced. New Jersey appeared with two contesting sets of rep-
resentatives— one with the usual credentials under the "broad seal " of
the State, and one with a certificate of election signed by the Democratic
Secretary of State. The seats were finally awarded to the latter delega-
tion, assuring the Administration a small majority. One of the members
was the Hon. Philemon Dickerson. The office of Justice of the United
States District Court becoming vacant bv the death of the incumbent, he
became an applicant for the position. Mr. Van Buren was not willing to
take a man away from the slender majority, when the Independent Treas-
ury bill and other measures were pending. The candidate appealed to
his brother for help. "I have an almost insuperable objection to asking
favors at this time in behalf of myself or family," was the reply. He did
so, nevertheless. The President would only consent to the arrangement
of appointing Mahlon Dickerson himself, but accepted his resignation the
next February and made his brother his successor. The proceeding was
distasteful to him, but he yielded his scruples in order to help his brother.
He succeeded in rescuing his business from the threatened disaster, as
well as in recovering his health. " I have never had better health than I
have had for the last three months," he wrote in April, 1840. Not only
had he attained his normal weight, but he had brought up the revenues of
his property and doubled its value. In 1840 he raised twenty-five tons of
ore each day, and during the period of sleighing sold eighteen.
His sympathy with Mr. Van Buren was warm, and their relations were
familiar. He was free in offering counsel, and we can now see that
his advice might have been taken with profit. A letter to the President,
dated May 20, 1839, relates as a wonder the reading of the message in
exactly twenty-six hours after it was delivered to both houses of Con-
gress— a celerity of despatch which he would not have dreamed of twenty
years before. He praises the document with the sagacity peculiar to a
politician, because "it makes no new question upon which the Adminis-
tration is to be sustained by a whipping-in of votes, which is sure to result
in a whipping-out of friends."
He also suggests a course which has gone out of fashion now, and
which hardly seems to have been in fashion at that time. "It is danger-
ous," says he, " to urge upon Congress any great measure resting for its
support upon Executive influence. It is unjust to the friends of the Ad-
ministration who may not be in favor of such a measure upon its intrinsic
merits ; and who, if Democrats, resist everything like coercion,"
He then declares his confidence that Mr. Van Buren would be elected
in 1840 without the vote of New York. He grounds this belief upon the
probability that the Conservatives, who had become disaffected, would
yet vote for him, and deprecates their rough treatment by the editor of
the Washington Globe. "The greater part of those who have left us will
return," said he, "if not driven from our ranks : and they would never
have deserted us for a moment if they had been treated with the forbear-
ance and respect due to them."
Such, however, was not the policy adopted, and the Conservatives
generally supported the Whig candidates. General Harrison was elected
President, receiving 234 out of 294 electoral votes. General Lewis Cass
28 Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. [Jan.,
was then minister to Paris. Mr. Dickerson, who was warmly attached to
him, wrote him of the result and the future, November 19, 1840 :
"You will know before this reaches you that Van Buren is defeated
horse and foot ; in fact, we are all swept by the board. Much fraud has
been practised by our opponents, and much money expended in buying
votes ; but all this will not account for the immense majority against us.
* * * A majority of the people have decided against the measures of
the Administration, and we must submit."
" The calling of an extra session in 1837 was a mistake, and the attempt
to force down the Sub-Treasury Bill was a greater. The bill itself was
right enough, but the country was not prepared for it. It was known that
many of our leading men and members of Congress were opposed to it.
Blair undertook to whip them in, but instead of whipping in he whipped
out — of which we had the most decided proofs in 1838 — yet those who
deserted our ranks were considered as Federalists, not worthy of our atten-
tion, and the system of proscription was followed up with greater vigor
than ever, in order that the party might be made perfectly pure. It is
indeed made very pure, but inconveniently small."
He now proposes to his former colleague the policy for the future, the
leading feature of which was that General Cass should himself become a
candidate. "Before you left us," he writes, " I once mentioned to you
that had I your reputation, civil as well as military, I would push for the
Presidency — all which at that time you seemed to consider as an idle
speculation. The time has arrived, sooner than I anticipated, when you
will be called upon by the old Jeffersonian party to take your place at
their head as a candidate for the highest office in their gift. There is no
other man on whom we can rally."
He then predicted the return of the Conservatives from the Whig
party: " A large portion of those who have deserted our ranks have been
governed by honest motives, and will rejoice at the opportunity of return-
ing to our party when they can do it without what they consider a sacri-
fice of principle."
In a letter to General Cass a year later he foreshadowed the failure of
the Whig administration. "The people," he says, " disapprove of much
that took place in '38, '39 and '40, inasmuch as they were not relieved of
their pecuniary distress." He does not scruple to impute this distress to
the want of a protective tariff, and to hold Henry Clay to account.
" When the people are in distress," said he, "they consider any change
for the better. No system of administration can be permanent unless the
country is prosperous, and in this there is some justice, as the prosperity
of the country depends entirely upon those who have the administration
and the making of the laws in their hands. Heaven has showered down
its blessings upon us, but we have been cursed with legislation. In four
years after Mr. Clay's Compromise Bill the excess of our imports over our
exports amounted to more than $125,000,000."
The nephew of Mr. Dickerson, Captain Augustus Canfield, of the
U. S. Army, had married a daughter of General Cass. He writes her father,
November 28, 1841, expressing his gratification.
" Nothing could give me greater pleasure," says he, "than the con-
nection that has taken place between your family and mine. Hitherto I
have been your warm and sincere friend from the time of my first
acquaintance with you. I rejoice in a circumstance that brings me
189 1.] Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. 2Q
nearer to you ; and the more so, as I have long entertained the most
sincere attachment and esteem for all your family." After a warm praise
of Captain Canfield, the son of his dead sister, he concludes with the
assurance that the young wife will be cherished by him rather as a daugh-
ter than a niece.
In the same letter he implores General Cass to draw a line between
himself and the Whig party. He assures the General that the Democratic
leaders in Pennsylvania had promised, in that event, to forego their prefer-
ences for Mr. Buchanan, and to support him instead. From the pro-
nounced opinions of these men in favor of high protective duties, it was
necessary to have such a caution.
In a letter to the Hon. William Cost Johnson, a leading Whig member
of Congress from Maryland, December 5, 1842, Mr. Dickerson reiterates
these sentiments, advocating a stated annual distribution to the States,
and preparing a system of commercial reciprocity :
" I would have such a revenue from commerce as would enable the
Government, with the proceeds of the public lands, to divide $ 10,000, 000
a year among the States. This would enable the States to carry on public
improvements, or would relieve the people from local taxation largely.
" I perceive you are in favor of such a system of duties upon imports
as will insure us a reciprocity of commerce with the powers of Europe.
Let such a system be adopted, and our country must prosper."
"Our imports of sugar and molasses in 1841 amount to more than
$11,000,000 — prostrating the State of Louisiana. Our imports of iron
for '41 amount to more than $8,500,000. You mention the fact that in
ten years we have paid England alone $85,000,000 for the article of iron.
We are the most stupid nation in Christendom, except the Portuguese."
He further unfolds his views respecting reciprocity :
"I hope you will persevere in your efforts to enforce a perfectly
reciprocal commerce — not with one nation, but with all nations — and
that by legislation, not by negotiation. Let this be done by the House
of Representatives, the Senate, and the President — not by the Executive
alone, with the advice of the Senate. The House of Representatives of
the people should never submit to any infringement of their constitutional
powers to regulate commerce."
Mr. Dickerson was destined to meet a sad disappointment. At the
meeting of the Democratic National Convention in 1844 a majority of
the delegates were in favor of Mr. Van Buren as the candidate. The
adoption of the famous two-thirds rule enabled .the friends of other candi-
dates to prevent his nomination ; but that rule proved then and always a
two-edged sword for the beheading of statesmen and the exalting of
mediocrities. General Cass was also defeated, and James K. Polk bore
off the prize. In a letter written to the General, February 7, 1845,
Mr. Dickerson freely unbosoms himself:
." Since our horrible Democratic Convention at Baltimore in May last
I have felt but little disposition to write political letters to any one."
After relating his engagements at the convention to revise the Consti-
tution of New Jersev, and mentioning the rebuilding of his house, he
plunges into the topic near his heart :
"But as to the Baltimore convention. It is true their nominee has
been elected, and the ascendency of our party maintained for the present;
but this forms no apology for the atrocious conduct of the convention.
^o Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. [Jan-,
They were appointed to select one of the leading candidates for the Presi-
dency, whose characters were known, and whose claims had been the sub-
ject of discussion for many months. It was soon discovered that the
contest was between you and Van Buren, and that it was the duty of the
convention to nominate one of you ; and so thought the majority of
the convention, till it was clear that you would be nominated in one or two
ballots more, when the Van Buren clique, to prevent this, determined to
blow up the ship. * * * Yet, had you been nominated, you would
have been elected in spite of them. * * * To gratify the malignant
passions of a few members of that convention, the Democratic party were
placed in this predicament — they must support the nomination or be
totally defeated. It was an outrage upon the Democrats of the country. "
He then proposes a policy for General Cass to pur%ue :
" I hope you are not to be of Polk's cabinet. * * * Your game
will be a plain one. Pursue the couise you adopted immediately on the
nomination ; and let Calhoun, Wright, Benton, and Buchanan do the
rest for you, and 1 think without doubt you will take the trick."
If any one thinks Mr. Dickerson too strong in his language, or too
outspoken, it may be well to bear in mind that he expressed a sentiment
which was for a time quite general. Even General Cass himself declared
in a letter, that the Democratic party was not obliged to support Mr.
Polk's nomination.
Mr. Dickerson employed himself during the political campaign of
1844 in building over his house at Succasanna. It was the period when
a furor for decentralization raged over the North, and many of the States
held constitutional conventions. JVIr. Dickerson was chosen that year a
delegate to the convention held in New Jersey. It detained him till July,
when he plunged into the excitement and confusion incident upon the
rebuilding of his house. He gives as his reason for this, that he might
not die of spleen at the action of the Democratic National Convention.
The "torments of building " assuaged that of disappointment. From
August till the end of November he was constantly occupied amidst the
din of hammers, and saws, and trowels. " I have so enlarged and altered
my house," he wrote to General Cass, "as to make three times as much
room as I had before, and a good deal more than I want. My building
will be finished about the beginning of May, when I shall be at leisure
for a few months, and what I shall do with myself then I know not —
perhaps visit you and make a tour through the Western States ; perhaps
make a short visit to Europe."
The house and estate was named by him Ferramonte. Here Captain
Canfield and his wife made their abode, and Mr. Dickerson meanwhile
carried out his proposition of a tour over the Western States. Never for
a moment did he abate in zeal for the nomination of General Cass. He
kept up a frequent correspondence, advised him in regard to great meas-
ures, and employed himself diligently to prevent any extensive movement
in behalf of Mr. Polk's renomination. The free-trade views then in
vogue met his ardent disapproval.
In 1846 he became president of the American Institute, and in his
addresses warmly upheld the policy of protection to domestic industries.
He held the office a second term, and took pains to enforce the same
views when he found the opportunity.
Writing upon the subject to General Cass, in 1846, he took strong
1 89 1.] Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey. •? j
ground against the Tariff bill of that year. "Should Mr. Walker's bill
be adopted," says he, " I have no doubt the next President will be elected
by the Whigs."
His letters upon political matters at that time are yet full of interest
as giving an intelligent view of the policy then pursued. The question
of terminating the joint occupation of Oregon had been prominent in
the canvass of 1844. Mr. Dickerson favored giving notice of the termi-
nation at the end of a year, opposing any warlike measure without such
notice. But he writes : "At the expiration of the year take possession
of the whole, if we are willing to fight for it ; and up to latitude 490, if
we mean to be at peace. "
The war with Mexico was in progress, and the acquisition of territory
became certain. Mr. Dickerson 's views sound queerly now.
"Our schemes of unbounded ambition alarm all Europe," says he.
"When we extend our views to Texas, Mexico, California, Cuba, and
Canada, connected with the foolish declaration of Mr. Monroe in 1824,
and repeated by Mr. Polk, we are inviting Great Britain, France, and
Russia against us. I would sooner have quiet possession of Cuba than
of all Oregon and California together, and would sooner go to war with
Europe immediately than see her in possession of it."
To a friend he writes : "I am for Cuba, Canada, and Cass."
He could never excuse or extenuate the nomination of Mr. Polk in
1844. In a letter written two years later he makes this charge : " The
General was defeated at the Baltimore Convention by the miserable
intrigues of rival candidates, who were willing to prostrate the Democratic
party rather than witness the success of a man whose superior merits
excited their jealousy and hatred."
His letters to General Cass himself point out the intrigues of the
nomination in 1848. Writing January 26, 1846, he says :
" By the steps you have taken in the Senate, I think you have gained in
public estimation ; but be assured you have enemies at Washington.
Men dislike to be honest upon compulsion. Those who reluctantly
voted in favor of your resolutions will, if possible, make you feel the
effects of their spleen.
" Polk, be assured, wishes again to be a candidate for the Presidency.
Van Buren still hopes that he is a favorite. Wright is looking forward
with great confidence. Calhoun, Benton, Buchanan, Dallas, and Walker,
etc., etc., are in full chase ; not one of these but would willingly put
you out of the way — they would even combine to do it."
Again, writing in May of the same year :
" A great effort is now making to enlist the West under Mr. Calhoun's
banner by adopting the principles of free trade. He may be able to
defeat any other Democratic candidate for the Presidency, although not
able to secure his own election. For a free-trade Nullifier never can be
elected President of the United States."
Mr. Dickerson's efforts were successful. The Democratic National
Convention of 1848 made General Cass the candidate. Mr. Polk with-
drew his name in advance. Mr. Dickerson was in close communication
with the candidate during the canvass, and at the solicitation of Mr.
Lewis Cass, Jr., made diligent endeavor to secure the electoral vote of
New Jersey. All in vain. The refusal of Mr. Van Buren's friends to
support the nominations lost the States of New York, New Jersey, and
•2 2 Mahlon Dicker son of New Jersey, [Jan->
Pennsylvania to the Democrats, and General Zachary Taylor was elected
President.
This was the end of Mr. Dickerson's active participation in politics.
He was now an old man. Yet he never faltered in public spirit, or in
any way became soured by defeat. He was friendly to all alike, and
wherever known he was generally respected and beloved. So generally
were his name and residence familiar, that a letter from Ireland, directed
to "John Murphy, care of General Dickerson, North America, " reached
its destination without delay.
An interesting sketch of him was given to the writer by Mr. White-
head, of Morristown.
"I remember Mahlon Dickerson well," says Mr. Whitehead. " He
was in advance of me, being quite an old man when I commenced my
public career. He was tall, well-made, of excellent proportions, of dark
complexion, and with a kindly dark eye. His manners were those of a
gentleman of the olden time. He was a bachelor, but fond of the society
of young people, and particularly delightful in his deportment toward
them.
" My wife remembers with great pleasure a visit she made, when quite
a young woman, to his country seat near Succasanna, which he named
Ferramonte. He put all the young people, of whom there were quite a
number visiting at his house, perfectly at their ease, and played the host
in the most charming manner.
" He was of the very best Revolutionary ancestry, and was himself a
decided patriot. He was a firm Democrat at a time when the politics of
the country was divided between the two great parties — Whig and Demo-
cratic. I was an ardent Whig, which fact he well knew, but it never
interfered between us in social intercourse.
"I mentioned as one of his characteristics his fondness for young
people. Although he never married, yet he always manifested a liking
for children. I remember now very vividly an occurrence which has
always lingered with me. I met him accidentally in the omnibus in
the streets of Newark. My oldest daughter, then quite a small child, was
with me. After the ordinary salutation, and a few remarks such as will
be made between acquaintances when meeting, he turned to the child
and said to her: 'Are you a Democrat?'
" 'Tell Mr. Dickerson your name,' said I.
" 'Frances Pennington Whitehead,' came very distinctly from the lips
of the girl.
"'Ah,' said Mr. Dickerson, laughing quite heartily, 'no chance for
any Democracy there ! ' "
The Rev. Mr. Whitaker, pastor of the First Church at Southold, New
York, also gives a description of Mr. Dickerson during the last year of
his life.
"Mahlon Dickerson, fifty years since, excelled in hearty, unpretentious,
and generous hospitality at his home in Morris County, New Jersey. His
house was remarkable, especially in this respect : that even the hall and
passages were more or less lined and obstructed by wagon-loads of books
and public documents which he kept for reference, and which he gave
away freely. A very intimate friend of mine, fifty years since (1840), was
never weary of acknowledging Mr. Dickerson's kindness and generosity.
" Mr. Dickerson came to Southold in the summer of i85i_or 1852, and
1 89 1.] The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 23
put up a costly marble monument to the memory of his Southold ancestry.
He ordered it to be made in New York, and had it made so that it would
stand, as he thought, for a thousand years. The exact point where the
first Philemon was buried could not be ascertained. He set up the
monument very near the spot where it is most probable that his ances-
tors were buried, in the oldest part of the cemetery of the First Church.
"At the time he set up this monument he was no longer a young
man, for it had been near forty years since he became the owner and
intelligent worker of the famous Succasanna Iron Mine, three miles from
Dover, New Jersey ; but he was erect and tall. His hair was abundant
and gray, not white. His movements were deliberate, and he was rather
slow of speech than otherwise. He had the bearing and manners of an
aged man of business, not specially the air of a venerable statesman.
He manifested a kindly interest in the welfare and usefulness of the
young pastor of the church in whose communion his Southold ancestors
were members, and the pastor cherishes the most pleasant and grateful
recollections of this worthy descendant of one of Southold's earliest citi-
zens."
Mr. Dickerson was passionately devoted to tree -culture, as his
grounds at Ferramonte afforded abundant evidence. He was also an
amateur of science, and his cabinet contained numerous geological and
other specimens showing his tastes. A rubellite presented to him was
gratefully acknowledged, and duly labelled in his collection. He was
always a student, and eager for all kinds of knowledge.
He was never connected with any religious communion, though a
man of profound convictions. As he lived, so he passed from this stage
of existence, serene, hopeful, and placid. He was eighty-eight years of
age. His body reposes in the churchyard at Succasanna, where a plain
monument marks the spot, with the following inscription :
" Mahlon Dickerson, son of Jonathan and Mary Dickerson; born
April 17, 1770, died October 5, 1858. His biography is written in legis-
lative records. ' Mark the perfect man and behold the upright : for
the end of that man is peace. ' "
Whether we consider him as a citizen, a public man, or as a friend
and neighbor, Mahlon Dickerson was alike grand and unexceptionable.
THE FAMILY OF THOMPSON, OF THE COUNTY OF
SUFFOLK, NEW YORK.
By Frederick Diodati-Thompson.
Arms : Or on a fesse dancette azure three estoiles argent ; on a canton of the
second the sun in his splendour.
Crest : A cubit arm erect or vested gules, cuff argent, holding in the hand five
ears of wheat proper.
Motto : In lumine lucem.
There is, perhaps, no part of this country where exists at the present
day so much conservatism in all things as on Long Island, and this is
especially true of the easternmost part which is comprised in the county of
Suffolk. The people here have always been thought to be "behind the
3
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The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., K Y.
[Jan.,
age," they are so loath to change any of their customs or habits ; and,
indeed, until a few years ago, when the extravagant period subsequent to
the civil war altered to some extent
their primitive manners, they made
no attempt to keep up with the times.
The family names of the first settlers
are still found in the different vil-
lages, and in many instances the
same farms are held by persons whose
ancestors lived there in the days of
William and Mary, two hundred years
ago. It is an unusual feature in this
country where so little affection is felt
for old homesteads, or indeed for any-
thing old, for the spirit of progress
destroys landmarks and obliterates the
memories of the past. Suffolk County
possessed in former times a landed
aristocracy which took a leading part
in local affairs, and certain families
have always been regarded as superior
by their neighbors, owing to their posi-
tion and education. William Alfred
Jones, in his valuable Sketch of Long Island, says : "Suffolk County
occupies nearly two-thirds of Long Island, and is the county of the so-
called pine-barrens and sand, yet abounding in rich necks on both sides
of the island, and teeming trout streams. It is the county of the great
patents of the Nicolls, the Smiths (of St. George's Manor and of Smith-
town), the Gardiners (of the Manor of Gardiner's Island), the Floyds (of
Mastic), the Lawrences, the Thompsons (of Sagtikos Patent or Manor),
the Lloyds, and other leading families — estates equal in extent to some of
the great old North River manorial grants ; as, for instance, the Nicoll
Patent of originally one hundred square miles, Richard Smith's Patent of
thirty thousand acres, Fisher's Island (Winthrop's Manor), Gardiner's
Island, Shelter Island, and Lloyd's Neck." The Thompsons have been,
in local position and permanent respectability, one of the first families of
this country. Their unchanged relative importance on Long Island, and
their personal worth and character, have always been their chief pride.
In the old records they were invariably designated as Mr., Gentleman, or
Esquire, which then was unusual and had a special significance. They
are descended — according to the historian of Long Island, Benjamin F.
Thompson — from the Rev. William Thompson, a native of Winwicke,
in Lancashire, England, of a family originally of Northumberland. He
was born in 1597, graduated at Brasenose College, Oxford, 16 19, removed
to this country 1634, and died Dec. 10, 1666.
John Thompson, the ancestor, of the Thompsons of the county of
Suffolk, came to Ashford, Long Island, in 1656, and with Col. Richard
Woodhull, Col. Richard Floyd, and others, became one of the fifty-five
original proprietors of the town of Brookhaven. By allotment of land
and by purchase he became the owner of a large amount of real estate,
which on his death he divided among his children. He married Hannah,
daughter of Jonathan Brewster, and sister of the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster,
1891.] The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. *>c
B.D. , afterward the clergyman at Setauket, who graduated at Harvard
College, 1642, went to England and took, orders, and was settled at Alby,
in Norfolk, for some years, but in 1662 returned to America and was
minister of the First church in Boston, but settled finally at Brookhaven.
Trinity College, Dublin, conferred on him the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity. He married Sarah Ludlow, daughter of the worshipful Roger
Ludlow, a distinguished lawyer and deputy governor of Massachusetts
and Connecticut. His daughter, Hannah Brewster, afterward married
her cousin, Samuel Thompson.
John Thompson resided near the public green, and was an upright and
intelligent man, and held in high estimation by hi9 fellow-townsmen, who
frequently elected him to responsible town offices. He died Oct. 14,
1688, leaving three sons, William, Anthony, and Samuel, and several
daughters, one of whom, Elizabeth, married Job Smith, son of Richard
Smith, the patentee of Smithtown, who purchased the Indian grant of
Lion Gardiner (Gardiner received this valuable tract of land as a recom-
pense for having ransomed the daughter of the Sachem Wyandance).
Smith made other purchases and procured a patent from Gov. Nicolls in
1665, and from Gov. Andros.in 1677, and also a release from David
Gardiner of the Lordship and Manor of Gardiner's Island, confirming
his father's conveyance.
William Thompson, the eldest son, married Ruth Avery, of Stoning-
ton, Connecticut, where he settled. The other two brothers, Anthony
and Samuel, remained at Setauket, but had not many children, conse-
quently their descendants at the present day are few. Patience, daughter
of Anthony, married her cousin Timothy Smith, son of Job, and grand-
son of Richard the patentee. *
Samuel, the youngest son, born March 4, 1668, was a farmer. He
married Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, and widow of
Job Muncy. Her mother was a daughter of Roger Ludlow, \ a lawyer
* Elizabeth Smith, daughter of the patentee Richard Smith, and sister of Job Smith
who married Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, married (1st) William
Lawrence, a native of Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, the ancestor of the
Lawrence family of New York, and (2d) his Excellency Capt. Philip Carteret
(son of Helier de Carteret of the island of Jersey), who represented his kinsman Sir
George Carteret and Lord Berkeley, the Lords Proprietor. New Jersey was called so
from the fact that Sir George was a native and had been governor of the island
of Jersey, and had held it for King Charles I., it being the last stronghold surren-
dered to the Parliament. Elizabethtown was named after Lady Elizabeth, wife
to Sir George Carteret. Joseph Lawrence, son by her first husband of Mrs. Elizabeth,
wife to Capt. Philip Carteret, and sister of above-named Job Smith who married
Elizabeth Thompson, married Mary Towneley, daughter of Sir Richard Towneley
who was the son of Charles Towneley who fell at Marston Moors. The younger
sister of Mary Towneley married Baron Howard of Effingham, afterwards created
first Earl of Effingham. Mrs. Elizabeth Carteret left no children by Philip Carteret.
Deborah, a younger sister of Job Smith who married Elizabeth Thompson, and
of Mrs. Elizabeth Carteret, married William Lawrence, son by his first wife of Wil-
liam Lawrence, the first husband of the said Mrs. Carteret.
The Carterets have always been the family of greatest importance in the island of
Jersey, and descendants still own the Manor of St. Ouen on that island. Elizabeth
Castle at St. Heliers was named after the same lady as Elizabethtown in New Jersey.
f The Worshipful Roger Ludlow. (See Stiles' ''History of Ancient Windsor.")
" His daughter Sarah, who is said to have been distinguished for her literary acquire-
ments and domestic virtues," married the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, whose memoir
will be found in Sibley's "Harvard Graduates," i., 73. (See N. E. Gen. and Biog.
Register for July, 1886.)
15 The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. [Jan.,
of high standing, who was the framer of the first code of laws oi the col-
ony of Connecticut. She was his cousin, was born May 19, 1679, and
died Nov. 17, 1755. She received a very superior education for those
times.
Samuel Thompson was in all respects an exemplary man, a leading
individual in the Presbyterian church, and frequently served in the office
of trustee of the town. Mr. Thompson, with Col. Henry Smith of St,
George's Manor, Col. Richard Floyd, Justice Adam Smith, Selah Strong,
and Jonathan Owen were the commissioners that had charge of the erection
of the new church in 1710. He died July 14, 1749, leaving two sons,
Jonathan and Isaac, and five daughters : 1st, Susannah, born 1707, mar-
ried Thomas Strong, who was born June 5, 1708 ; married about 173c.
Their son, Judge Selah Strong, born Dec. 25, 1737, married Nov. 9, 1760,
Anna Smith, born April 14, 1740, daughter of William Henry Smith *
and Margaret Lloyd. f Mrs. Anna Smith Strong died Aug. 12, 18 12, aged
72. Judge Strong was a delegate to the provincial Congress in 1775,
captain in the army, State Senator, and first Judge of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas of Suffolk County. He died at St. George's Manor, July 4,
1 81 5, aged seventy-seven.
2d, Mary, who married Daniel Smith.
3d, Deborah, married Arthur Smith, who was an officer during the
Revolutionary war, and was killed.
4th, Ruth, married Thomas Telford, a merchant of importance in New
York.
5th, Sarah, married William Thompson, son of William of Stoning-
ton, Conn.
Isaac, the youngest son, was lost in a vessel at sea.
Jonathan, the eldest son, remained at Setauket, and inherited the
valuable real and personal estate of his father. Jonathan above named
was born Oct. 25, 17 10, and married Sept. 30, 1734, Mary Woodhull,J
* William Henry Smith was the son of Col. Henry and Anna Sheppard. Col. Henry
Smith was the son of Col. William Smith, often called " Tangier Smith." He was
born at Newton, Northamptonshire, England, Feb. 2,1655; appointed by King Charles
II., in 1675, Governor of Tangier, Africa, which, with Bombay, was a part of the mar-
riage portion given to Catherine, wife of Charles, by the King of Portugal. Tie came
to this country Aug. 6, 1686, with his family, and purchased land at Brookhaven, Oct.
22, 1687. He afterwards bought another large tract of land, which, together with Ins
original purchase, he erected into a manor called St. George's Manor. He was made
Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony of New York, and afterwards
Chief Justice, and was removed by the Earl of Bellomont, but again appointed in 1702.
He married Martha Tunstall, daughter of Henry TunstaU of Putney, England. He
died Feb. 18, 1705. She died Sept, 11, 1709.
f Margaret Lloyd, mother of Mrs. Anna Smith Strong, was daughter of Henry
Lloyd and Rebecca Nelson, daughter of John Nelson, who was a son of Robert
Nelson and Mary Temple, who was daughter of Sir John Temple of Stantonbury,
England. He was the grandson of Peter Temple, who was the ancestor of Sir William
Temple, Lord Palmerston, Lady Chatham, and the Duke of Buckingham.
% The Woodhulls were descended from Richard Woodhull, who settled on Long
Island in 1656. His family is said to be very ancient, and may be traced to an indi-
vidual who came from Normandy into England with William the Conqueror, in 1066.
The name was originally Wodhull, and continued to be so spelled for many years after
the arrival of the family in this country. Richard, the common ancestor in America,
was born at Thenford, Northamptonshire, England. He died in October, 1690,
leaving issue Richard, Nathaniel, and Deborah. The second son died unmarried ;
Deborah married Capt. John Lawrence of Newtown. Richard was early chosen a
magistrate and was, like his father, an intelligent and useful man. His wife was
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born April 11, 171 1, daughter of Richard Woodhull, 3d. She was a first
cousin of the distinguished Gen. Woodhull. (He served as major
under Gen. Abercrombie at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, with Lieut. -
Col. Bradstreet at the capture of Fort Frontenac, and in 1760 served as
colonel of the 3d New York Provincials under Gen. Amherst, was at
the surrender of the Marquis de Vaudreuil which effected the final reduc-
tion of Canada. He afterwards had an important command in the Revolu-
tionary army, and distinguished himself at the battle of Long Island,
where he received a wound from which he never recovered. Being cap-
tured by a detachment of dragoons and the 71st Regiment of Foot, he was
struck down by a loyalist officer after he had surrendered. His wife was
Ruth, daughter of Nicoll Floyd, and sister of William Floyd who was a
signer of the Declaration of Independence. He left one child, who mar-
ried, 1st, Henry Nicoll, and 2d, Gen. John Smith of Mastic.)
Mr. Thompson was, like his father, a very extensive farmer and a
justice of the peace for nearly forty years. He was a man of exemplary
prudence, a lover of peace, and shared through life the esteem and con-
fidence of all his fellow-citizens. His death occurred June 5, 1786, and
that of his widow Jan. 30, 1S01. She was a person of gentle disposition,
and possessed many estimable qualities which justly endeared her to all
her acquaintances. They had four sons and two daughters, viz. : Mary,
born Nov. 25, 1735, married Thomas Smith, Esq., son of Edmund
Smith of Smithtown, and died May 23, 1794, leaving only one child, a
daughter Anna who married Richard Floyd of Setauket, a descendant
of Col. Richard Floyd,* one of the 55 original settlers of Brookhaven,
Temperance Fordham, by whom he had a number of children. By an original letter
in possession of his descendants, it appears that he was related to the Crews, and
other aristocratic families of England. This letter was from Lord Crew, acknowl-
edging the receipt of one from Woodhull, thanking him (Lord Crew) for a present
of the " crest and arms of the family," and also giving him news of his relatives in
England. Richard Woodhull, 3d, son of Richard Woodhull, 2d, had several chil-
dren ; his daughter Mary married Jonathan Thompson. The family are now quite
numerous and have occupied many important positions.
* Col. Floyd, the first settler, was supposed to have died about 1700, and the
number of his children is uncertain. His son Richard, designated as Richard 2d,
married Margaret, daughter of Col. Matthias Nicolls, secretary of the colony of New
York, and sister of William Nicoll the patentee of the great Islip estate. He was
for many years judge and colonel of the county militia. His children were : Susanna,
married Edmund Smith ; Margaret, married Judge John Thomas ; Charity, married
Benjamin Nicoll, and 2d, Dr. Samuel Johnson, President of King's (now Columbia)
College ; Eunice, mariied William Stephens ; Ruth, married Walter Dongan ; and
Richard and Nicoll. Richard Floyd, 3d, above mentioned eldest son of Richard 2d,
inherited the paternal estate at Setauket, and was a highly useful and respectable
man. Like his father, he was a judge and colonel of the county. His wife was Eliza-
beth, daughter of Benjamin Hutchinson, and their children were Richard, Elizabeth,
John, Margaret, Benjamin, Gilbert, William Samuel, Mary (married William Elli-
son), and Anne unmarried.
Richard Floyd, 4th, eldest son of Richard 3d, settled on his father's estate at
Mastic, which he forfeited by his adhesion to the British cause in the Revolution.
He removed to St. Johns, N. B., where he died in 1792. He married Arabella,
daughter of the Hon. David Jones, by whom he had children: 1st, Elizabeth, married
John Peter Delancey, and died, leaving three sons, Thos. Jones DeLancey, Edward
and William Heathcote DeLancey, Bishop of Western New York, and five daughters,
viz. : Anna, married, as his second wife, John Loudon McAdam ; Susan, married
James Fenimore Cooper ; Caroline, Martha, and Maria. 2d, Anne Willet, who mar-
ried Samuel B. Nicoll. 3d, David Richard Floyd, married Sarah, daughter of Hen-
drick Onderdonk, who died, leaving sons. Tohn and Henry. Mr. Floyd, in accordance
og The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., X. V. [Jan.,
who with Richard Woodhull and John Thompson were the principal per-
sons in that settlement ; Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Thompson,
born Oct. 5, 1747, married Col. Benajah Strong of Islip (his sister mar-
ried, as his 2d wife, Gen. William Floyd of Mastic) — she died Feb. 1,
1786, leaving children, Samuel, Nancy, Mary, Benajah, Elizabeth, and
with the will of his grandfather, and in pursuance of an act of the Legislature, added
the surname of Jones, and the family is now known as Floyd-Jones. Mrs. Jones
lived to a great age, and her sons were : Brig. -Gen. Thomas Floyd-Jones, married
Cornelia, daughter of Major William Jones ; and Major-Gen. Henry Floyd-Jones,
married Helen, daughter of Charles Watts of South Carolina.
Benjamin Floyd, brother of the last-named Richard, and third son of Richard 3d,
remained on the estate at Setauket, and was colonel of the militia. He married
Anne, daughter of Samuel Cornell, of Flushing, and had issue : Richard, who married
Anna, daughter of Thomas and Mary Thompson Smith ; Gilbert, married successively
Sarah Dewick, Sarah Woodhull, and Lydia Woodhull.
Samuel, married, 1st, Elizabeth Ellison, and 2d, Augusta Van Home.
Nicoll Floyd, second son of the 2d Richard, married Tabitha, daughter of Jona-
than Smith, 2d, of Smithtown. He died in 1752, leaving issue : Ruth, married Gen.
Nathaniel Woodhull ; William ; Tabitha, married Daniel Smith ; Nicoll ; Charles ;
Charity, married Ezra L'Hommedieu.
Mary, married Edmund Smith ; Catherine, married Gen. Thomas ; Ann, married
Hugh Smith.
Charles Floyd, son of Nicoll, married and left descendants. William Floyd, son
of Nicoll above mentioned, was a distinguished patriot during the Revolution, and
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of Congress, candidate for
lieutenant-governor as the opponent of Stephen Van Rensselaer, etc. He married
Isabella, daughter of William Jones of .Southampton, and had issue, Nicoll, Mary, and
Catherine. He afterward married Joanna, daughter of Benajah Strong of Setauket,
and sister of Benajah who married Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Thompson. By
this second wife he had children, Ann and Eliza. His son Nicoll married Phoebe,
daughter of Hon. David Gelston, and sister of the late Mallby Gelston, Esq.. of New
York, by whom he had several children, one of whom, Hon. David G. Floyd, resides
at Greenport ; another, Hon. John G. Floyd, resides at Mastic ; and his daughter
Julia married Dr. Edward Delafield. Mary, eldest daughter of Gen. Floyd, married
Col. Benjamin Tallmadge ; Catherine, second daughter, married Dr. Samuel Clarkson ;
Ann (by second wife, Joanna Strong) married George W. Clinton, son of the former
Vice-President of the U. S., and 2d, Abraham Varick ; Eliza, the youngest, married
James Piatt of Plattsburg. She, Eliza F. Piatt, died in 1820, when he married for
his second wife Susan Catherine Auchmuty, ne'e Woolsey, daughter of Melancthon
Lloyd Woolsey.
Matthias Nicolls, or Nicoll, the progenitor of the Nicoll family, was of an ancient
and honorable family of Islipe, Oxfordshire, England, and came to this country
shortly before Col. Richard Nicolls who captured New York from the Dutch, and was
the first English governor. It is supposed that Matthias Nicolls was the nephew of
Richard Nicolls the governor. Matthias Nicolls, Colonial Secretary, Mayor of the
City of New York in 1672, member of the Council, Justice of the Assizes, and Judge
of the Colony, died 1687, and was buried at Cow Neck. He had a daughter Mar-
garet who married Col. Richard Floyd, and a son Col. William Nicoll who came
to this country with his father in 1664. He was a lawyer, the first clerk of Queens
County, a member of the Council six years and of the Assembly twenty-one years,
during sixteen of which he was Speaker. He married Anna Van Rensselaer, daughter
of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, and widow of Kilian Van Rensselaer the Patroon. The
children of Col. William Nicoll and Anna his wife were : 1st, Benjamin, married
Charity Floyd his cousin, daughter of Col. Richard Floyd and Margaret Nicoll, and
lived at Islip. 2d, William, died unmarried. lie was Speaker of the Assembly. 3d,
Van Rensselaer, died at Albany. 4th, Mary, married John Watts of the distinguished
family of that name of New York. 5th, Catherine, married Jonathan Havens of
Shelter Island. 6th, Frances, married Edward Holland.
Benjamin, eldest son of Col. William Nicoll and Anna Van Rensselaer, married
his cousin Charity Floyd, and had children :
1st, William, called "Clerk" Nicoll, married Joanna d'Honneur.
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1 89 1.] The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. V. 39
William ; Nathan, youngest son of Jonathan, died in infancy ; Jonathan,
third son of Jonathan, born Feb. 14, 1 74 5, died unmarried Sept. 14,
x773> on his passage from St. EusUtia to New York where he had been
on business; Isaac, second son of Jonathan, was born Jan. 18, 1743 ;
and Samuel, eldest son of Jonathan, was born Oct. 2, 1738. Jonathan
Thompson purchased for his son * Isaac, in 1758, the estate on the south
side of the island known as Sagtikos Patent or Manor, on a neck of land
called Appletree Neck. The original charter or patent for this property,
2d, Benjamin. 3d, Gloriana Margaretta.
William, called Clerk Nicoll, married Joanna d'Honneur. His children were :
Charity, married Garret Keteltas of New York ; William ; Gloriana Margaretta, mar-
ried John Loudon McAdam, and was the mother of the late Sir Jas. L. McAdam,
knight ; Joanna Rachel, married Clerk Kilby McAdam ; and Samuel Benjamin.
Capt. William Nicoll married Frances Smith, daughter of Col. Henry Smith.
He owned the Nicoll Manor or Patent at Islip, which was an entailed estate. Their
children were William and Henry. William married Deborah Seaman, and was the
owner of the entailed manor at Islip, Their children were Frances, married Wick-
ham Conklin of Oakneck, Islip, and William, married Sarah Greenly. He was
graduated at the College of New Jersey, and studied law. He resided on the patent.
Their children were William who lives on the patent, Frances Louisa who married
Brevet Major-Gen. William H. Ludlow, and Sarah Greenly. William Nicoll married
Sarah Augusta Nicoll, daughter of Edward A. Nicoll, and has children.
Henry Nicoll, son of Capt. William Nicoll, of Islip, and Frances Smith, married
Sally Squires, and left children. Samuel B. Nicoll, son of William Nicoll and Joanna
d'Honneur, married Anne Floyd (daughter of Col. Richard Floyd and Arabella,
daughter of Judge Uavid Jones), and had children : Rev. Richard Floyd Nicoll ;
Lieut. William Nicoll, U. S. Marines ; Elizabeth Floyd Nicoll, married Charles T.
Dering (son of Gen. Sylvester Dering and Esther Sarah Havens, of Shelter Island) ;
and Anna W., died unmarried. Samuel B. Nicoll married Sarah B. Payne, Thomas
Ellison Nicoll died unmarried, Maria Cortlandt Nicoll married Rev. Ezra Young,
John Cortlandt Nicoll, unmarried, Gloriana Margaretta Nicoll died unmarried,
Arabella Floyd-Jones Nicoll married Charles Johnson. Rev. Richard Floyd Nicoll,
son of Samuel B. Nicoll and Anna Floyd, had children : Margaret, Sylvester, Richard
Floyd, Sarah Anna, Mary Catherine, Capt. Sylvester Dering, U. S. N., Hester R.,
Charles Hinnly, Charity Antoinette, Elizabeth Gardiner, and Joanna Rachel. Eliza-
beth Gardiner Nicoll married Samuel Gardiner, son of Abraham S. Gardiner and
Abby Lee, and had children : Abraham Smith, Richard Floyd Nicoll, Elizabeth
Nicoll, Mary Catherine, Clarence Lyon, Margaret Sylvester Dering, and Murray
Stewart. Samuel B., sori of Samuel B. and Anna Floyd, married Sarah Brown Payne,
and resided on Shelter Island. He left seven children.
* Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, it is said by various writers, was a relative
of the Long Island Thompsons. Count Rumford was born at Woburn, Mass., in 1753,
was major of New Hampshire militia, and afterward lieutenant-colonel of dragoons
in the British army during the Revolutionary war, and Under Secretary of State for
the colonies as assistant to Lord George Germain. He received the honor of knight-
hood from the British Government. In 1784 he went to Bavaria to reorganize the
military of that State, and here greatly distinguished himself for his administration of
affairs. For his services he was made successively Major-General, Lieut. -General,
Commander-in-Chief, Ministerof War, and Countof the Holy Roman Empire, on which
occasion he selected as his title the name of Rumford, the place in America where he
had resided. In 1796 he was appointed head of a Council of Regency during the
absence of the elector, and ruled the kingdom for some time. He was the real
founder of the Royal Institute of Great Britain, and spent the close of his life in
making and applying useful discoveries. He died in France. A bronze statue has
been erected in his honor at Munich. The count was very arbitrary and severe in
his treatment of the people of Long Island while stationed there during the Revolu-
tionary war, but to his honor never molested or interfered with the L. I. Thomp-
sons. He was invited by the Government of the U. S. to superintend the formation \
of the West Point Military Academy, but declined. See New Englander for Feb.,
1876. (New Haven.)
40 The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., A". Y. [Jan.,
dated 1697, from King William the Third, signed by Col. Benjamin
Fletcher, then governor of New York, with the great seal of the province
attached, is still in possession of the family. Sagtikos, though - not
occupied at present, is still owned by the familv. Judge Isaac Thompson
died here, Jan. 30, 1S16. He was a magistrate for more than forty years,
a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a representative of the County
of Suffolk in the Assembly in 1795. He was a man of sincere piety and
the strictest integrity. His manners were mild and courteous, and in the
discharge of all his official duties manifested sound judgment united with
firmness and impartiality.
Judge Thompson was active during the Revolutionary war in organ-
izing the militia and was chairman of the Islip committee. He wrote
several letters to the Continental Congress in relation to affairs on Long-
Island. Dr. Samuel Thompson of Setauket was also one of the principal
men of Brookhaven engaged in providing means of defence against the
anticipated invasion of the British troops. Feb. 15, 1776, he sent an
important letter to Congress enclosing maps of the harbors, descriptions
of the beaches, etc. He recommended the erection of a fort near Setauket
to have an armament of six or eight guns, and another at Stony Brook
to have two six or nine pounders. He also wished a capable gunsmith
sent to them.
In 1777 more than three hundred light horse, on their way east,
bivouacked for the night on the estate of Judge 'I hompson, and made, as
usual, free use of his property. The commanding officers, among whom
was Sir Henry Clinton, in their tours of the island, frequently stayed at
Sagtikos. On one occasion the house was assaulted in the night by some
British sailors belonging to a vessel of war, and Judge Thompson was
himself dragged by a rope around his neck across the highway, and threat-
ened with death, but was saved by one of their number saving that, as he
was a magistrate under die king, they should not hang him. He was
also fired at while going up-stairs in his house, but fortunately was not
hit. The bullet is in possession of his descendants. They took with
them some of his furniture and carried it on board of a frigate at New
York, but he succeeded in having it restored to him after much trouble.
His wife, Mary Gardiner, was daughter of Col. Abraham Gardiner of
Easthampton. They were married June 4, 1772, and had children, two
sons, Jonathan and Abraham Gardiner, both of whom became distin-
guished citizens of New York.
Col. Gardiner, the father of Mrs. Thompson, was the second son of
David Gardiner, fourth Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island ; he resided
at Easthampton, and was a leading character on Long Island during the
war of the Revolution. Col. Gardiner, as executor, had charge of the
manor during the minority of John Lyon Gardiner, the seventh Lord and
proprietor, and as Gardiner's bay was occupied by the British fleet under
Admiral Arbuthnot, who obtained from the island nearly all their pro-
visions, his duty to his ward obliged him to be careful in his conduct
so that the " British would not vent their spite against this young gen-
tleman," who was not of age. Nevertheless Col. Gardiner co-operated
with Lieut. -Col. Livingston, who commanded the troops on the east end
of Long Island, until the town of Easthampton was occupied by a de-
tachment of British soldiers under Sir William Erskine.
As Col. Gardiner's house was the finest in Easthampton, it was natu-
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rally selected as the headquarters, and he entertained, at different times,
Lord Percy, Lord Cathcart, Gov. Tryon, Major Andre, and others. The
unfortunate Andre was a great favorite in the family, and left with them
several mementos of friendship ; and two of the wine-glasses from his camp
chest, presented by him to Col. Gardiner on the eve of his departure, in
exchange for two of Col. Gardiner's, are still preserved in the family.
Dr. Nathaniel Gardiner, son of Col. Gardiner, who studied medicine
under the celebrated Drs. Shippen and Rush of Philadelphia, served
in the war as surgeon in the First New Hampshire Regiment.
Col. Gardiner married Mary Smith, a descendant of Chief Justice
Smith (who had been governor of Tangier) of St. George's Manor.
Their children were : 1st, Rachel, married Col. David Mulford and after-
ward John Gardiner, of Eaton's Neck.
2d, Dr. Nathaniel, married Eliza Dering (the Derings were one of the
best families of the County of Kent, England).
3d, Mary, married Judge Thompson.
4th, Capt. Abraham of the Militia (which title he went by to dis-
tinguish him from his father), married Phoebe Dayton. He had children :
Abraham S., married Abby Lee, and left descendants mentioned in note
on the Nicoll family ; Mary, married Philip G. Van Wyck (a grandson of
Gen. Van Cortlandt, of the manor), and had : Joanna ; Cortlandt, died
unm., a midshipman U. S. N. ; Eliza, married Wm. Van Ness Living-
ston ; Pierre C. ; and Anna Van Rensselaer, m. Judge Wells ; David mar-
ried Juliana McLachlan of Jamaica, \V. I., whose grandfather was Capt.
McLachlan who commanded the united clans of McLachlan and Mc-
Lean at the battle of Culloden, Scotland, and was beheaded for treason.
Their children were : Julia, who married John Tyler, President of the U. S.
(and had children Gardiner, John Alexander, Lyon G.,Lachlan, Fitzwalter,
Julia, and Margaret) ; Alexander, died unmarried, clerk of the U. S. Cir-
cuit Court, N. Y. ; Margaret, married John Beeckman (had one child,
Henry, who was killed by a fall from his horse in Va., Aug. 4, 1875).
Mr. Beeckman was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while
shooting. Mr. Beeckman's mother was a Livingston. Col. David Lion
married his cousin Sarah Gardiner, daughter of David Thompson (and
has David, Sarah Diodati, and Robert Alexander). Samuel S., son of
Capt. Abraham, married Mary, daughter of Ezra L'Hommedieu, a mem-
ber of congress, and had Mary, married Prof. Eben N. Horsford of Har-
vard University ; she died, when he married her sister, Phoebe. Frances
married Prof. Lane of Harvard University, and has Gardiner and a
daughter who married Bayard Van Rensselaer of Albany.
Nathaniel, son of Capt. Abraham, married Eliza Frances, and had
John B., William, and Eliza, in. Dr. I. Hartshorne.
Dr. Nathaniel, son of Col. Gardiner, had two children, Robert S.
who died unmarried, and Eliza P. who married Reuben Brumley, and
died without children.
Jonathan, son of Judge Isaac Thompson, was born at Sagtikos, Dec.
7, 1773, died at New York, Dec. 30, 1846, and married July 4, 1796,
Elizabeth, born on Shelter Island, May 19, 1773, died at Sagtikos, May
31, 1868, daughter of James Havens, of Shelter Island. He became a
distinguished merchant in New York City, under the firm of Gardiner &
Thompson, being in partnership with Nathaniel Gardiner. They were in
•the West India importing business, which they carried on very extensively,
a 2 The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. [Jan.,
but being unfortunate, the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Thompson con-
tinued it under his own name. As a politician previous to and during
the war of 1812, Mr. Thompson was prominent in the old Democratic
Republican party of that period, favoring the war and officiating for ten
successive years as chairman of the Republican General Committee, at that
time a very important position. As such he presided at the first public
meeting held in Tammany Hall. In consequence of his long services as
presiding officer, he received the appellation of the "Everlasting Chair-
man."
"On Nov. 24, 1813, he was appointed by President James Madison col-
lector of direct taxes and internal duties, under the Act of July 22, 1813,
and continued as such until the closure of the office in 1819. On Dec.
20 he was appointed by President Monroe, by and with the consent of
the Senate, collector of the customs for the district of New York, to
which office he was re-appointed by the same chief magistrate Jan. 13,
1825, and again re-appointed by President John Quincy Adams Jan. 27,
1829, and removed by President Andrew Jackson April 25, 1829, in order
to award the office to his (the President's) particular friend Samuel
Swarthout, who proved a defaulter to a large amount. During the
official connection of Jonathan Thompson with the government, his
fidelity and accuracy were so remarkable, that, with all the rigid scrutiny
exercised by the examiners at Washington, no error was found except one
often cents discovered during the administration of Mr. Adams. About
the time that strenuous efforts were being made to effect his removal from
office on political grounds, he having favored the election of William H.
Crawford to the Presidency, Mr. Adams had so much confidence in the
integrity of Mr. Thompson, as proven by the correctness of his accounts,
that he declined removing him, and at an interview in New York person-
ally narrated the whole story. From 1829 he was in no public position,
but continued the warehousing business in the valuable "Thompson
Stores," which he owned in Brooklyn ; he added to the river front and
erected new buildings. In 1840 he was chosen president of the Man-
hattan Company at the time of its financial embarrassment, and by his
prudence and able management it was reinstated among dividend paying
institutions. He continued in this office until his death, Dec. 30, 1846,
aged 73 years and 23 days. Mr. Thompson was unostentatious in man-
ners ; he courted no popularity, yet carried with him no stinted share of
that respect which belongs to genuine worth, and dying left behind him a
name which relatives and friends have never heard and never will hear con-
nected with aught but expressions of approbation and esteem. " In this
connection the following verses are copied from a poem by Mrs. Saltus,
which were written at a summer resort about the different visitors. These
lines are in relation to the late David Thompson, the eldest son of the
above-named Jonathan, and were written about 1850.
The Thompsons' descendants of Long Island's glory,
Whose ancestors' fame ascends from the sod,
His name is ennobled in Manhattan's story
By virtue and justice, the good gifts of God.
His mantle of honor on his son has descended,
The richest inheritance mortal can hold ;
For vain are escutcheons if truth is not blended
Amid their devices in letters of gold.
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Jonathan Thompson had six children who grew up, viz. : David, who
married Sarah Diodati, daughter of John Lyon Gardiner, Lord of the
Manor of Gardiner's Island.
George W., married Eliza Prall.
Jonathan, married Katharine Todhunter.
Abraham Gardiner, married Sarah E. Strong.
Mary Gardiner, married Samuel B. Gardiner, 10th proprietor and
Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island ; and Elizabeth, married Alonzo
Brown, but had no issue.
David Thompson, born May 3, 1798, died Feb. 22, 1871, married
Sarah Diodati, daughter of John Lyon Gardiner, 7th proprietor and Lord
of the Manor of Gardiner's Island, and sister of Hon. Samuel B. Gardiner
who married Mr. Thompson's sister. Mrs. Thompson's mother was a
Griswold of the distinguished Connecticut family of that name, so many of
whom have been governors of the State and distinguished public men.
Her uncles John and Charles Griswold were prominent shipping mer-
chants in New York, and rivals in importance of their cousins N. L. and
George Griswold. John left no children, and Charles had but two : Eliza-
beth, who married Judge Lane, a very wealthy and distinguished citizen
of Sandusky ; and Sarah, who married Lorillard Spencer. (Her eldest
daughter married Prince Virginio Cenci, Duke of Vicovaro.) Mrs.
Thompson's middle name of Diodati* was received from her great-grand-
mother on her mother's side. This family is now entirely extinct in this
country. Mrs. Thompson's maiden name was Gardiner, \ she being of
* The Diodati family originated in Lucca, from whence they went to Switzerland,
from there to London, and finally William Diodati came to America. He was a
gentleman and a man of education, and left his library to Yale College when he died.
His sister married an Englishman named Scarlett, of good family. She had no
children, and he (William Diodati) came into possession by her will of considerable
silver plate marked with the arms of the Scarlett family, which is now preserved by
his descendants, who are very few in numbers, the male line having died out entirely
in this country. The representative of the family in Switzerland, M. le Comte Ga-
briel Diodati of Geneva, a gentleman of wealth and position, has in his possession a
number of documents showing the importance of this family. Among them are " an
elegant bordered parchment from the chancery of the Duke of Lucca, reciting in Latin
the illustrious history of the Diodatis and their right to bear certain dignities and
titles. A patent from Louis Fourteenth of France, which is a large parchment signed
with his own hand and recognizing the nobility of the family and their right to hold
estates in Frances, with a large wax seal hanging from it. The parchment states that
the Diodatis back to the 14th century have always been the flower of chivalry. There
is also in the possession of the family a superb folio, bound in crimson, of 14 pages of
vellum, with the imperial seal of Joseph Second hanging from it, in a gilt box. It
states the dignities of the family in magnificent terms, and confirms to it the title of
count of the empire. One of the pages is illuminated with the family arms, the shield
being placed on the imperial eagle. The descent of the American Diodatis is well
authenticated and acknowledged."
f The Gardiners of Gardiner Island are descended from Lion Gardiner, who was
a lieutenant by rank, and master of works of fortification in the encampment of the
Prince of Orange. He came to this country in the employ of Lord Say and Sele and
Lord Brooke, Sir Arthur Haslerigge, Sir Matthew Boynton, Col. George Fen wick, and
others, and he was to be employed in the drawing, ordering, and making of a city,
towns and fortifications, and was to have 300 able-bodied men under his command.
He sailed from London on August II, 1635, >n a small Norsey barque of 25 tons,
with his wife and female servant, Eliza Colet. Gardiner brought with him materials
for a portcullis, a drawbridge, stuff for flags, and a number of guns were sent to-
him by a vessel which arrived soon after. He landed at Boston on Nov. 28, 1635.
During his brief stay in that place the citizens availed themselves of his skill as an-
44 The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. [Jan.,
the family of that name of Gardiner's Island. David Thompson above
named was a gentleman well known to all old New Yorkers of the better
class. He received a thorough classical education when young, and at
the age of eighteen entered his father's office — two years afterwards was made
cashier of the Custom House. He remained there eight years, and then
engineer in completing the fortress already begun by Gov. Winthrop on Fort Hill.
It was agreed to compel 14 days' work by each citizen, and a committee consisting of
the Deputy Gov. Bellingham, the celebrated Sir Henry Vane, Gov. John Winthrop,
and John Winthrop, Jr., were appointed to carry out the arrangement. Under the
direction of Gardiner the work soon assumed the dignity and proportions of a fort.
It was a structure eminently adapted to its purposes, and continued in use till after
the war of the Revolution, and was garrisoned by English troops at the time of the
Battle of Bunker's Hill. Sir Edmund Andros sought protection in its walls in 1689.
Lieut. Gardiner was ordered to the mouth of the Connecticut River, where he built
Saybrook Fort and commanded it for four years. It was during these perilous times
of Indian wars, that on the 29th of April, 1636, his son David was born, being the
first white child born in Connecticut. After completing the term of service for which
he had engaged, he turned over the command to Geo. Fenwick and removed to an
island in Long Island Sound which he called the Isle of Wight, but which became
known as Gardiner's Island. Col. Fenwick, who succeeded him in command of the
troops, was an Englishman of good family, who was afterwards M. P., Governor of
Berwick, and Colonel in the Parliamentary Army. His wife. Lady Alice, died and
was buried at the fort ; she was the daughter of Sir Edward Apsley, and widow of Sir
John Boteler. Fenwick afterward married a daughter of Sir Arthur Haslerigge.
Gardiner, while at the fort, had many conflicts with the savages, and on several
occasions barely escaped with his life. Once he was surrounded by Indians and
obliged to defend himself with his sword, and had it not been for the protection of his
military coat of mail would undoubtedly have been killed ; as it was, he was severely
wounded. When he removed to his island he tork with him several of the soldiers
who had served under him at Saybrook fort, and probably some had been under his
command in Holland in the army of Lord de Vere. This island was the first Eng-
lish settlement in the present State of New York. On the 14th of September, 1641,
Elizabeth, his last child, was born ; she being the "first child of English parentage
born in the Colony of New York."
In 1653 Lieut. Gardiner removed to Easthampton and left his estate in charge of
his farmers. In 1663 he died, regretted by all. The profession of arms in which he
had spent the earlier part of his life inured him to hardships and prepared him to
contend successfully with the fatigues and hazards of life in the wilderness. His
home and table were ever free, and he was generous and kind as well to the stranger
as to his comrades. Gov. Winthrop, Gen. Mason (who succeeded Fenwick in com-
mand at Saybrook fort), and Sir Richard Saltonstall made favorable mention of his
hospitality at the fort. Mason says that on his return from the Pequot war " he was
nobly entertained by Lieut. Gardiner, who was chief commander at Saybrook fort,
with many great guns, and received from him many courtesies."
The patent of Gardiner's Island, granted by the deputy of the Earl of Sterling,
erected it into " an entirely separate and independent plantation, with the power to
execute and put in practice such laws for church and civil government as are agree-
able to God, the king, and the practices of the country."
Mrs. Gardiner, whose maiden name was Willemsen, was born in the town of
Woerden, Holland, of highly respectable parents. She survived her husband only
two years. The island was entailed on the eldest son David, who was educated in
England, where, in the Parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, he married Mary Her-
ringman. He received from Gov. Dongan the last patent of the island, erecting it
into a " Lordship and Manor to be henceforth called the ' Lordship and Manor of
Gardiner's Island.' It granted the right forever in the said lordship and manor one
Court Leet and one Court Baron to hold and keep at such time and times as shall be
meet. To distrain for rent. The advowson or right of patronage to all churches, to
be holden of his Most Sacred Majesty his heirs and successors in free and common
socage according to the tenure of Earl Greenwich, in the Kingdom of England, yield-
ing and paying therefor yearly one lamb on the first day of May, at New York, in lieu
■of all services whatsoever."
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successively became the cashier of the Fulton bank under John Adams,
Cashier and Vice-President of the Bank of America (which was the suc-
cessor of the old Bank of the United States) under the late George New-
bold, and President of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company.
This latter institution he took charge of after they had sustained large
losses from the dishonesty of a former officer, and by judicious and care-
David Gardiner died July 10, 1689, at Hartford, Conn., where he was engaged
on public business. He was buried in Hartford, and on his monument in the old
burial ground is the inscription : " Well, sick, dead in one hour's space."
His children were John, David, Lion and Elizabeth. John inherited the island
and was the third proprietor and Lord of the Manor. It was during his life that the
estate was pillaged by Spanish buccaneers ; and the notorious pirate, Capt. Kidd,
made it the repository of his stolen treasures. His death was caused by the fall of his
horse at Groton. He had several children. His daughter Elizabeth married Thomas
Greene of Boston, and was the mother of the distinguished merchant prince Gardiner
Greene, whose wife, Miss Copley, was sister of Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor of
Great Britain.
His eldest son David succeeded to the estate. He was born Jan. 3, 1691, and
the following entry in the church records tells us of his death :
" 1751, July 4, died Lord Gardiner, aged 60, havingbeen sick for some months."
" His sons were John, Abraham, Samuel and David. John and David were edu-
cated at Yale College, and took their degrees in 1736. Abraham was the Col. Gardiner
of the Revolution. John became the fifth proprietor and lord. A stone in the burial
ground at Easthampton records the death of " Elizabeth, wife of his Excellency John
Gardiner, Lord of the Isle of Wight, in 1754." After her death he married Deborah
Avery, and left her a widow, when she married Gen. Israel Putnam of the American
army. She died at his headquarters in the Highlands and was buried in the vault
of Col. Beverly Robinson. John Gardiner's sons were David, John and Septimus.
Septimus was an officer in the army and died young. John had a large estate known
as Eaton's Neck. David, the eldest, was educated at Yale College ; he received the
island by entail, and was the sixth proprietor. His wife was daughter of the Rev. Samuel
Buel, D.D., a distinguished clergyman of his day. She was a lady of great talents
and literary acquirements. A sketch of her life has been written by the Rev. Dr. Wool-
worth. His sons were John Lyon and David. They took their degrees at the College of
New Jersey in 1789. John Lyon, the seventh proprietor of the Manor, was a gentleman
of culture and refinement. Local history is indebted to him for some cnri us and im-
portant information. He died Nov. 22,1816, leaving a wife, Sarah Griswold, a lady
highly respected (she belonged to one of the most distinguished families of Connec-
ticut), and five children, viz.: David J., John (hiswold, Samuel 1!., Mary IS. and Sarah
Diodati. David J., the eighth propHetor of the island, was educated at Yale College,
wh' re he graduated in 1824. He di. in 1829 in the twenty-sixth year of his age, in-
testi -and unmarried. Heretofore th s estate had always been entailed on the eldest
S' ■", 11 that law having been abrogat 1 by the Legislature of this State, the island
now cended to his brothers and sisters. John G., the eldest survivor, purchased
the. r shares and became the ninth proprietor. He died unmarried and intestate, when
the island again descended to his brother, Samuel B. and his sister Mrs. Sarah Diodati
Thompson, wife of David Thompson of New York, Mary B. having died previously.
To keep the estate still in the Gardiner name, Mrs. Thompson sold her half of the
island to her brother Samuel B., who became the tenth proprietor. It is remarkable
that since the first proprietor this island has descended according to the laws of pri-
mogeniture, and the proprietors have been named alternately David and John, and
until the present generation the Irscent has been from father to son. At the present
: ime there are a number of persons named Gardiner not of this family who have set-
tied on Long Island.
Sir Thomas Christopher Banks, a distinguished genealogist, says in his " Dormant
and Extinct Baronage of England," that the family of Gardiner of Gardiner's Island are
descended from the Gardiner who married one of the co-heiresses of the Barony of
Fitzwalter, and that the claim can be proven properly if duly inquired into. A dia-
mond left by the pirate Capt. Kidd, when he visited the Manor of Gardiner's Island,
is now in the possession of the family of Gardiner Greene, of Boston, who married
Mi«s Copley.
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ful management made this company the foremost of iis kind in the city,
the shares having increased in value from 80 per cent, to 600. He
remained connected with the company until his death, which occurred
Feb. 22, 1871, a period of nearly twenty-five years. Mr. Thompson was
a person of fine appearance, high minded, honorable, and a sincere
Christian. His funeral took place from his residence. 25 Lafayette Place,
on Saturday, Feb. 25. The clergymen were the Rev. Mancius S. Hutton,
D. D. ; Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D. ; and the Rev. Samuel R. Ely, D.D.
The following named gentlemen acted as pall-bearers : John David Wolfe,
John Q. Jones, Thos. W. Ludlow, Moses Taylor, William B. Astor,
Robert Ray, William H. Aspinwall, and Joseph Sampson.
The following notice in regard to this event is copied from the Evening
Post: "The funeral of this respected citizen was performed on Satur-
day the 25th inst. at 10 o'clock a.m., at his late residence, Lafayette Place.
Notwithstanding the early hour of the 'day, the spacious mansion was
densely crowded with the prominent bankers and distinguished men of
the city. Mr. Thompson has been identified with the banking insti-
tutions of the city for the last fifty years, and by his blameless life, his
mature judgment, his perfect rectitude in all financial transactions, com-
bined with his dignified and courteous manner, won the confidence and
esteem of all who knew him. Few men have led a more practical life or
left behind a purer record. The Rev. Dr. Hutton, in a brief address, paid
an honorable tribute to the memory of the deceased, after which the ven-
erable Dr. De Witt offered most fervent prayer that God would give grace
and Divine support to the stricken and sorrowing family ; that the multi-
tude of honored and honorable men (many of whom with himself were
in the sere of life) who had gathered to the house of mourning might
more fullv realize the brevity of life and the vanity of earth from this les-
son of Divine Providence. The remains were then removed to the hearse
and deposited in the family vault." Mr. Thompson's children were Sarah
Gardiner who married Col. David Lion Gardiner (sun of David Gardiner,
who was killed by the explosion of a gun on board the U. S. frigate
Princeton on the Potomac River while on a pleasure excursion with the
President of the United States), Elizabeth, Gardiner, David Gardiner,
Charles Griswold, Mary Gardiner, Frederick Diodati, and a son John
Lyon Gardiner who died young. Sarah Gardiner Thompson, who married
David Lion Gardiner, has children — David, Sarah Diodati, and Robert
Alexander.
George W., who died Jan. 8, 1884, son of Jonathan Thompson,
entered the Custom House under his father and became the Deputy Col-
lector. He afterwards established the warehouse and lighterage business,
and acquired by careful attention and strict integrity a fine fortune. He
married Eliza Prall, who died May 7, 1886. Her father was an eminent
merchant and related to some of the best people of the city. They have
children living: Anna, married William Thorne (son of Jonathan Thorne,
a well-known merchant) and has one child (Lydia A.) ; William Prall,
married and has children ; and Thomas De Witt.
Jonathan, son of Jonathan, born Feb. 1, 1814, died Nov. 14, 1872,
married Katherine Todhunter, died May 9, 1878, of a highly connected
family of Baltimore. They had a number of children, but three
only lived : Elizabeth T., born Dec, 1845, married .... Elijah
.Pendleton Smith ; Joseph Todhunter, born Jan. 10, i860, married Jane,
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daughter of William and Jane Suydam Remsen, and has children — Jona-
than and Jane Remsen, and Mary who married William B. Westcott (Mr.
Westcott and his sister, who married Fordham Morris of Morrisania, were
the only children of William J. Westcott) and has three children (Kitty
T., Robert D., and William T. ), and Harry who died March 22, i860.
Jonathan Thompson was educated at Columbia College, where he took
his degree in 1832. He entered the counting-house of S. S. & G. G.
Howland, and was there associated with Moses Taylor, William H. Aspin-
wall, and other young men who afterwards attained eminence in mer-
cantile life. After learning the business thoroughly he began for himself,
and during the remainder of his life continued in the West India im-
porting trade.
Junius, born Jan. 31, 1800, graduated at Columbia College in 1821,
and became a physician by graduating from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. He died, unmarried, March 24, 1831.
Abraham Gardiner, born Aug. 10, 18 16, in New York City, died at
Islip, Sept. 26, 1887, graduated at Columbia College in 1833, and studied
meaicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. After taking the
degree of M.D. he was attached to the New York Hospital for sometime,
and then went to Paris where he studied his profession for two years longer.
He was a surgeon of great skill and a highly educated physician. He
also occupied a number of public offices, and was twice president of the
Suffolk County Medical Society. He married Sarah Elizabeth Strong at
Middletown, N. Y., 17th April, 185 1, daughter of Ellis and Mary Jackson
Strong of Copaig, Huntington South, Long Island, and had Robert
Maurice, born Aug. 12, 1853, died Sept. 23, 1873 > Miltop S., born Feb.
8, 1855, married Dec. 24, 1889, Abigail Adams Johnson, a descendant
of the Quincy Adams family ; Samuel Ludlow, born Jan. 20, i860 ;
Elizabeth Havens, born April 19, 1862, died July 17, 1864 ; Helen, born
Jan. 10, 1864, died July 17, 1864 ; and Gracie, born Jan. 8, 1867, died
Jan. 23, 1867. Col. Benajah Strong, great-grandfather of Mrs. Thompson,
was a conspicuous officer in the Revolutionary army, whose sister Joanna
married Gen. William Floyd, one of the signers of the Declaration of In-
dependence.
Mary Gardiner Thompson married Samuel B. Gardiner, of Gardiner's
Island. Mr. Gardiner was a brother of Mrs. Sarah D. Thompson. They
resided at the old Manor only part of the time, as they had several other
residences. Mary Gardiner Thompson was born March 23, 1807, died
Aug. 5, 1887. Their children are Mary Thompson, David J., John Lyon,
Jonathan Thompson, and Sarah Griswold. Mary married William R.
Sands, no issue. (Mr. Sands was son of Richardson Sands, Esq., whose
mother was a sister of the celebrated Col. William Ledyard who was so bar-
barously slain at the attack on Fort Griswold, at Groton, by the British
under command of Benedict Arnold. After the death of her first
husband she became the wife of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, of the Revolu-
tionary army). David J. is unmarried. John Lyon married Coralie Liv-
ingston, daughter of Oliver and Louisa Livingston Jones * (they have
children — Coralie Livingston, Adele Griswold, Lion, Winthrop, and
John) and grand-daughter of James Duane Livingston. Jonathan Thomp-
* The Joneses are a good old family, descended from Major Thomas Jones who
came to Long Island in 1696 and received a large and valuable tract of land called
Fort Neck, from the Crown ; here Major Jones erected a fine brick mansion, which
a& The Family of Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. [Jan.,
son unmarried, and Sarah Griswold married J. Alexander Tyler her
cousin.
Elizabeth Thompson, born Jan. 12, 181 1, died Dec. 12, 1889,
daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Havens, married Alonzo Brown.
They had no issue.
Abraham Gardiner Thompson, second son of Judge Isaac Thompson,
of Sagtikos Manor, was born Oct. 27, 1776, and died Oct. 29, 1851. He
married Rachael, daughter of Zachariah Rogers, of Huntington, Long
Island, by whom he had Charles Rogers, born Jan. 9, 1798, died March
18, 1799; William, born Feb. 4, 1800, died Dec. 15, 1800; Edward
Gardiner, born Sept. 27, 1802, died July 23, 1835. Edward Gardiner
was the sole survivor of the family. Mrs. Thompson died Sept. 18, 1827.
Their son Edward Gardiner, born in 1803, was liberally educated, and
graduated at Yale College in 1822. He married Mary, daughter of J. W.
Kellogg, of Flatbush, Long Island, and became a merchant in New York.
His death occurred, in the thirty-third year of his age, July 23, 1835,
leaving two sons, Augustus Frederick and Edward Gardiner, and a
daughter Cornelia R. Augustus Frederick, born May 22, 1833, died
April 22, 1846. Edward Gardiner married a daughter of Joseph L. Small-
wood, Esq., and has two daughters, Netty and Edwina Gardiner. Edward
Gardiner Thompson is a lawyer in partnership with his cousin Judge
Blatchford, was colonel on the staff of Gov. Edwin J. Morgan, and as
such was detailed to welcome and escort the Prince of Wales to New York
when he visited this country in i860. He has also occupied other pub-
lic positions.
" After the peace of 1815 the foreign trade of our entire country mani-
fested a tendency to centre in the city of Boston, and the greater part of
the capital of the United States engaged in commerce collected in Boston
ami Us vicinity. The general decrease of business in the city of New
i., caused by the accumulation of this trading capital in Boston, in-
duced the merchants of our city to inquire into the reasons of this state
of affairs ; and upon making this investigation they arrived at the conclu-
sion that the auction business was highly injurious to the trade of New
York, and that if this branch of business was destroyed the trade and
commerce of this city would become prosperous; and with that view they
petitioned the Legislature to impose a duty of ten per cent, on all auction
sales, which would, in fact, amount to a prohibition of them. There were
some few persons, however, who entertained a different opinion as to the
causes of this depression of trade in New York, and among the most
prominent was Abraham G. Thompson, who had been for years an enter-
prising and successful merchant in partnership with James Boggs and
Joseph Sampson. They all acquired very large fortunes. (Mr. Boggs
lasted for 140 years. He was supposed to have been connected with the buccaneers
of that period, as he had been a soldier and took part in the famous battle of the Boyne,
and in acknowledgment of his services he received from his royal master a commis-
sion to cruise against Spanish property. His widow married Major Timothy Bagley,
a retired English officer. His descendants are numerous, and many of them have
held high offices of trust and honor. Especial mention may be made of Judge Thomas
Jones, whose wife was Anne, daughter of Chief Justice de Lancey, and Judge Samuel
Jones, both distinguished barristers. Mrs. Jones, mother of Mrs. Gardiner, was a
daughter of James Duane Livingston, and granddaughter of Robert Cambridge Liv-
ingston of the Livingston family of New York, which has probably produced more
great men than any other family in this country.
1891.] The Family of\Thompson, Suffolk Co., N. Y. Ag
left two daughters, one of whom married Richard Ray, of the firm of
Prime, Ward & King, and is the mother of the Vicomtesse de Courval of
Paris; the other married Lewis Livingston. Mr. Sampson's only child by
his wife Atlele Livingston married (1st) Frederick W.Stevens, and (2d)
the Duke de Dino.)
Mr. Thompson saw that one reason operating in favor of Boston was
that India goods could be sold in that city and pay a duty of only one per
cent., while, at the same time, if those goods were sold at New York they
would be obliged to pay a duty of two and a half per cent., and that to
increase the duty upon auction sales was only to increase more widely
the difference in favor of Boston and against New York, and the existing
duties should be on the contrary diminished in this State. With that view
he went to Albany and submitted the result of his experience and judgment
to the Legislature, assuring them that by establishing the duty at one per
cent, upon East India and one and a half per cent, on European goods, the
interests of the city and also of the State would be greatly promoted, and the
revenue increased, by this reduction. It was difficult at first to satisfy
those with whom the matter rested that this effect would result from the
proposed change ; so many hundreds of the merchants and citizens of New
York had petitioned for this great increase of duties upon auction sales,
that it was almost impossible to think that they could be mistaken in their
view of the subject. Eventually, however, Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins
did become satisfied that the project of Mr. Thompson was the correct
one, and gave his influence to secure the enactment of the law reducing
the rates of duties as proposed, in place of increasing them. Previous to
the passage of the law reducing the rate of duties, for the two best years
between 17S3 and 1812 this State had received from duties upon auction
sales of India goods between five and six thousand dollars, averaging from
twenty-five hundred to three thousand dollars per annum; and to show his
confidence in the opinions he had expressed, Mr. Thompson offered the
governor, that, upon the passage of the law reducing the rate of duties, if
the State would convey to him the duties alone upon India goods he
would pay into the State treasury, in advance, for the first year the sum of
six thousand dollars, being more than the State had received for duties for
any two years subsequent to 1783. The result following that reduction
of duties more than justified all his anticipations and more than fulfilled
all his predictions ; for soon after the passage of that law, in place of sell-
ing all East India cargoes in Boston, as had previously been the case, a
Boston ship from the East Indies was sent to New York, and the auction
duties upon her cargo alone amounted to upward of six thousand dol-
lars, and the revenue received by the State upon India goods for the first
year after the reduction of duties amounted to between thirty-two and thirty-
three thousand dollars. All the India ships, after the enactment of the law,
were sent to New York, and from that time but few attempts have been
made to sell India goods east of New York. The reduced duties being
continued, the revenue arising to the State soon reached the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars. The effect of this reduction of the duties upon
auction sales has been not only to multiply the business of this city to the
shipper, the importer, the jobber, and the mechanic ; it has not only by
this increase of business made New York the commercial emporium of the
nation, and thus has drawn merchants and purchasers from all parts of
our widely extended country, and tended directly to enhance the value of
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real estate, and filled our city with palaces, and made our merchants
princes; it has not only materially aided the State in the payment of her debt
incurred from the system of internal improvements — but it also afforded
an impetus to the prosecution of the project for the great Erie Canal, with-
out which it would probably have been delayed for very many years. When
the act was passed reducing the auction duties, the successful result that
immediately followed placed into the State treasury such an immensely in-
creased amount of duties, compared with the previous receipts from the
same source, that the State embarked upon the prosecution of this canal
which has poured and continues to pour untold wealth into the city and
State of New York."
Abraham Gardiner Thompson died in November, 185 1, and left a
large fortune. His bequests to religious and charitable societies amounted
to $347,000, of which the Bible Society received $65,000, the Tract So-
ciety $54,000, the Seaman's Friend Society $54,000, the Colonization
Society $43,000, the Home Missionary Society $43,000, the American
Board of Missions $32,000, the Education Society $32,000, the Deaf
and Dumb Society $10,800, and the Blind Asylum $10,800.
Mary Gardiner, the first wife of Judge Isaac Thompson, of Sa^tikos
Manor, died April 21, 1786. On the 7th Feb., 1791, he married Sarah,
daughter of Gilbert Bradner, deceased, of Orange Co., and granddaughter
of Rev. John Bradner, first pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that place
in 1 72 1. By this second wife Judge Thompson had two children,
daughters, Mary and Julia. The first was born April 19, 1792, and mar-
ried William Howard, of Newtown, May 5, 18 12. She died Dec. 23,
18 1 3, leaving a daughter, Sarah, born May 2, 18 13, who married Dr. M.
H. Staples. Julia, the second daughter above named, was born Dec. 12,
1793, and married S. S. Carle, of Huntington, Jan. 11, 1820, by whom
she had issue, Mary Anne, Julia Elizabeth, and Timothy S.
Samuel Thompson, eldest son of Jonathan, and greatgrandson of John
the first settler, was born Oct. 2, 1738, and possessed the paternal estate
at Ashford, or, as it is now called, Setauket, on which he spent his life.
He carried on farming operations to a great extent and became a very
wealthy man. He adapted some improvements in agriculture, particu-
larly the use of "Indian shells" as a manure, which was afterwards suc-
cessfully imitated by others. At the age of thirty he commenced the study
of medicine, and enjoyed in a few years a very extensive and lucrative
practice, which he maintained until within a short time of his death, Sept.
17, 181 1. He was a gentleman of vigorous intellect, high character, and
by a long course of reading and reflection acquired an extensive fund of
useful knowledge. His first wife was Phoebe, daughter of Jacob and Mary
Satterlee, born Aug. 25, 1759, died July 7, 1793, whom he married July
7, 1 78 1, and had children, Benjamin F., and Hannah who died young.
Benjamin F. was born May 15, 1784, was educated at Yale College, but
did not graduate. He studied medicine under Dr. Sage of Sag Har-
bor, and practised for about ten years, when he relinquished this profes-
sion and read law, and was called to the bar. He followed the legal
profession for the remainder of his life, but was better known by his liter-
ary labors. His " History of Long Island " has preserved his name to pos-
terity in the most imperishable manner. He married, June 12, 18 10,
Mary Howard, born Oct. 5, 1794, eldest daughter of the Rev. Zachariah
Greene. He had four children : Henry Rutgers, born March 17, 1813,
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and having been for several years an officer of one of the New York banks,
died in the thirtieth year of his age, unmarried, highly beloved and re-
spected, Oct. 15, 1842 ; Mary Greene, born June 20, 181 5 ; Harriet
Satterlee, born Nov. 9, 18 18, married June 12, 1837, Jacob T. Vander-
hoof, Esq.; and Edward Z., born Sept. 2, 1821, married Elizabeth Lush,
July 10, 1843.
Dr. Samuel Thompson contracted a second marriage on March 10, 1795,
with Ruth, daughter of Timothy and Sebiah Smith, by whom he had a
daughter, Mary Woodhull, born Jan. 11, 1796, and a son, Samuel Lud-,
low, born March 5, 1799. the only children who lived to maturity. The
former died unmarried, Dec. 28, 1834, and the latter married, Feb. 12,
1842, his cousin Sophia, daughter of Colonel Isaac Satterlee. His widow
died on Jan. 26, 1834.
Samuel Ludlow had one daughter, Mary Ludlow, born 14 Jan., 1844.
She married, first, William Leroy Berrian, and second, on Jan. 14, 1868,
Thos. Strong Griffing, a gentleman farmer on the old estate at Setauket.
He was a lieutenant in the Mexican war in Col. Robert E. Temple's
regiment, and was assistant adjutant general, with the rank of captain,
under Gen. McClellan in the late civil war. They have one son, Thomas
Strong Griffing, born Dec. 30, 1868. Capt. Griffing is a nephew of the
late Judge Strong, of St. George's Manor, and was therefore a relative of
his wife.
* "Jonathan Thompson was born at Sagtikos Manor, Islip, the estate of
his father. He was the eldest son of Judge Isaac and Mary Gardiner
Thompson. He was a merchant in the city of New York in 1795, of
the firm of Gardiner, Thompson & Co. (with his cousin, Dr. Nathan-
iel Gardiner, formerly of the Revolutionary army), and as such was the
pioneer in the warehouse business in Brooklyn. He was well known
in the city of New York as an eminent politician. He was Collector of
Direct Taxes from 1813 till 1819, Collector of the Port from 1820 to 1829,
and President of the Bank of the Manhattan Company when he died in
1846, aged "/$. An extended account of him will be found in Stiles'
' History of Brooklyn,' vol. ii., p. 129."
A BUCKEYE CANE.
By Daniel Webster.
[Among a number of autograph letters and MSS. recently offered for sale to the
writer was the following curious little paragraph, without date, written by Daniel Web-
ster, and probably at the request of his friend William W. Seaton, at that period one
of the editors of the National Intelligencer of Washington. The item, which is
entitled " A Buckeye Cane," so far as I am aware, has never before appeared in print.
The italics and capitals are Mr. Webster's, j. G. W.]
While in the lobby of the Senate yesterday we observed that Mr.
Webster, who never wears a stick or any such appendage, held in his
hand a cane of no ordinary dimensions. It reminded us of the piece of
timber with which Dr. Johnson travelled through Scotland. We found
* From the History of Suffolk Co., N. Y., 1882.
c2 Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London. [Jan.,
upon inquiry that in his late tour to the West, Mr. Webster fell in with
a dozen or twenty citizens of Ohio, who, after an hour passed together,
desired to present him a memorial of their regard, which, of course, he
gratefully consented to accept. They chose a sprig of the Buckeye which,
nevertheless, they did not wish to present until it should be made to bear
a suitable inscription. It was retained for that purpose, and has now been
forwarded and delivered by the Hon. Mr. Ridgeway, one of the Repre-
sentatives from the State. On its mounting is inscribed : " Presented to
Daniel Webster by the Buckeyes, July 12, 1837." It looked to us like
a formidable Instrument, and if one might be permitted to put forth the
moral of the incident, we should say, that it was proof of a conviction, on
the part of the citizens of a Great State, that he to whom it was presented,
it was expected, would make use of all power, and all instruments en-
trusted to him in defence of the rights of the People. On being rallied
on the subject Mr. W. said, "You see, sir, I am prepared in times of
public difficulty to lean on the Buckeyes." Long may the Buckeyes and
Mr. Webster live in this mutual respect for each other !
WEDDINGS AT ST. MARY, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON,
FROM A.D. 1616 TO 1625.
Communicated by John V. L. Pruyn.
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(Continued from Vol. XXL, p. 90, of The Record.)
William Drew & Rosamond Broome.
Tho: Mario et Ellen Smith.
Symon Boydon et Mary Sandon.
'May 1616.
John Adlington et Jone Cole.
William Apl[e]bye & Rachell White.
Rob: Smith et Agnes Harrison.
Rob: Seeler et Katherin White.
Rowland Yantes et Katherin Harris.
Rich: Adams et Jane Rowley.
Rignold Hunsdon et Sarah Iverson.
ffrancis Lambert et Jone Woodward.
Tho: Vannondker et Sarah Dewbery.
Tho: Ruddy et Margaret Seyward.
June 1616.
Phillip ffox et Eliz: Williams.
John Poole et Ann Chamberlaine.
Timothy Tompson et Jone Ward.
Adam Baker et Dorithy Edmunds.
Henry Constable et Jane Jerome.
Kdward Rolph et Eliza: Wood.
Miles Pierson et Ellen Baker.
James Webb et Eliza: Bernard.
1 89 1.] Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London. 53
24, Tho: Venice et Eliza: Morneshawe.
27, John Dunton et Eliza: Goulding.
July 1616.
7, Jasper Baker et Ann Thornton.
10, William Mucksedge et Eliza: Harvy.
10, ffrancis ffeild et Mary Clayton.
1 1, Marke Coebraeth et Eliza: Rawlins.
14, Tho: Butcher et Eliza: Nichols.
15, John Dawson et Eliza: Goodwyn.
18, Jhon lies et Wynifried Ansley.
23, Edward Izzard et Jone Heath.
25, Tho: Knoweles et Alice Brewer.
30, Rob: Kirkman et Ann Story.
August 1 61 6.
1, Edward Hewling et Eliza: Allawav.
4, Rich: Morehouse et Christian Hall.
4, Tho: Harmond et Katherin Jones.
6, David Gibbins et Ann Reade.
8, Julius Marsh et Sarah Chauner.
10, William Hix et Kathenne Whittingam.
11, John Bentley et Bridget Halles.
12, Rich: Dudley et Sarah Butler.
12, William Cutfor et Alice Mattson.
14, Rich: Bodnam et ffrancis Clerke.
14, William Richards et Mary Bennett.
19, Henry Gardner et Mary Haynes.
25, Roger Pew et Margery Beomont.
25, David Jones et Avis Baytes.
26, John Gilbert et Ann Boyde.
September 1616.
1, John Cook et Judith Hartwell.
1, Tho: Robinson et Eliza: Graves.
15, Tho: Streddar et Eliza: Dawson.
15, Henry Robinson et Mary Abell.
22, Edward Smith et Agnes Arrowsmith.
24, Oliver Haire et Alice Jordan.
27, William Johnson et Jone Digges.
29, Raph Carter et Ann Yarley.
October 1616.
1, William Butler et Priscilla Monke.
3, John Towler et Diana King.
6, Bennet Sparrow et Ann Draper.
7, Tho: Brock & Jane Plomer.
7, William Hopkins et Mary Pygott.
9, Tho: Burnbury et Margaret Hodgson.
10, John Bingley et Eunice Cock.
13, William Bingham et Eliza: Gales.
16, William Attwood et Rose Benkrike.
20, Tho: Smith et Eliza: Litleton.
22, John Sammon et Alice Walter.
23, Jehu Paine et Eliza: Smith.
28, Rich: Cooke et Judith Hardin.
31, Tho: Carpinter et Abigail Bennet.
ca Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapel London. [Jan.,
November 1616.
3, John Coult et Susanna Price.
3, Rob; Dello et An Godwyn.
7, John Giddy et Katherine ffisher.
10, John Wheeler et Audry Willson.
10, John Wattson et Mary Johnson.
11, John Spencer et Eliza: Lee.
20, George Wilkinson et Susanna Chandler.
25, John Jerome et Ann Hutton.
25, Rob : Greene et Jone Chambers.
December 161 6.
1, William Murrine et Jone Pore.
1, Rich : Bowden et Jane Pcenix.
1, Rich : Buddies et Eliz : Mills.
2, Sabine Starsmore et Sarah Rawlinson.
2, Tho : Johnson et Dorcas Van.
5, Tho : Johnson et Katherin Thunder.
8, Tho : Clarke et Martha Ockwell.
n, Gabriell Barton et Sarah Mathews.
14, Ralph Man et Eliza : Collens.
15, John Broune et Eliza : Austin.
17, Hugh Williams et Elinor Reignolds.
21, Rob: Gildersley et Christian Bell.'
23, John Hugo & Elizabeth Malignes.
26, John Bostock et Sarah Davis.
26, Rob : Smith et Mary Clemens.
29, Tho : Answorth & Margery Weston.
January 161 6.
6, Roger Smith et Ann Bayley.
6, John Royston et Eliza : Theobalds.
7, John Chosell & Margaret Michison.
io, Christopher Girlill et Eliza : Homes.
13, William ffenwicke et Alice Coult.
16,' George Hapborne & Ann Crawley.
23, Robert Vickars & Sarah Hedger.
26, Rich : Hill & Margery Pate.
27, Simon Dollyn & Judith Baker.
February 1616.
5, William Powell & Margaret Russell.
6, John Dammering & Eliza : Stringer.
9, Henry ffeild & Mary Greese.
9, Rob : Brand & Ann Broune.
13, Robert Poory & Sible Gyfford.
16, Benjamin Bartlet & Alice Burrowes.
18, Evan Roberts & Ann ffox.
20, Paul Marsh & Susanna Beedoon. j
22, William Lawrence & Eliza : Allen.
23, William Haywood & Jane Downes.
23, William White & Ellen Litterd.
23, George Jusdin & Margaret Tompson.
24, Tho : Arnold & Joane Thorne.
25, James Cambell & Rachell Turelott.
1 89 1.] Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London. 55
27, Tho : Hackett & Grace Barlo.
28, William Wells & Mary Cabell.
28, John Cleaver & Christian Smith.
March 16 16.
2, John Pirkin & Mary Botcher.
2, William Ketle & Eliza : Musgrave.
6, John Edrope & Susanna Roome.
April 1 6 1 7.
[Date blank] Richarde Simpson & Ag :
Skipper ; at Wapp.
22, Humphrey Mond et Elinor ffrizell.
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10.
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18
29
30
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6
16
17
20
20,
20
20
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29
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Christopher Tompson & Alice Carter.
William Goade & Agnes Holland.
May 1 61 7.
John Vaghan et Eliza : Medlicote.
Nicholas Astrooder & Margaret Croutch.
Tho : Pallcoke & Eliza : Mason.
Anthony Cutt & Joane Kirby.
June 16 1 7.
Rich : Beard & Eliza Hurles.
Walter March & Jane Cheevers.
Rich : Waylett & Mary Beers.
John ffenwick & Ellinor Bauden.
Rich : Rowe & Ann Hixson.
Rich : Abbott & Jone Marshall.
Vmphrey James & Jane Wilcokes.
Mathew Murcott et Thomasin Obryn.
July 1617-
Abraham Loe & Katherine Loe.
William Smith & Ann Purchett.
George Rogers & Ann Rumney.
Moses Newes & Katherine Grindy.
Hillary Turner & Issabell flfells.
William Banister & Eliza : Axley.
Rich : Walker & Donthy Knowles.
Peeter Summers & Margery Blague.
William Webb & Mary Halfheade.
Peeter Brockl[e]sby & Jane Steventon.
August 16 17.
Rich : Marlton et Eliza : Pepper.
John Martin & Agnes Saunders.
Robert Poundsett & Susan Elam.
Joseph King & Alice Shawe.
William Abbott & Mary Styleman.
John Dawson & Alice Chambers.
[sic] Edward Haynes & Eliza : Merbury.
John Pert & Jone Beard.
September 1617.
John Midleton & Jone Buckner.
John Wyngod & Dorothy Taylor.
Daniell Broune & Agnes Pay body.
Rich : Gale & Eliza : Bernard.
r5 Ab/es and Queries, [Jan.,
26, John Willowby & Jone White.
28, John Hilyard & Jone Clement.
29, Robert Watson & Jone Hems. 1
October 16 17.
3, Henry Gamage & Rose Cage.
5, Rich : Hammon & Amy Churchill.
12, Gregory Cornish & Huldah Braswell.
26, Tho : Willson et Jane Watson.
30, ffrancys Johnson et Mary Pett.
November 161 7.
3, Samuell Arbery et Margaret Bazill.
3, Stephen Stickings et Eliza : Cooke.
6, John Sawkins et Rebecca Abraham.
6, William fford et Mary Welborne.
9, Hugh ffarrington et Cicilly Lewis.
10, ffrancys Cotterill et Margaret Kinnet.
13, Tho : Bowzy et Eliza : Jefferey.
( To be continued.)
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Among the subscribers to the noble bronze statue of Columbus to be erected in the
Central Park under the auspices of our Society and unveiled by the President of the
United States in October, 1892, are WUliam H. Appleton, John Jacob Astor, William
Waldorf Astor, August Belmont, James M. Brown, Clarence W. Bowen, George W.
Childs, W. W. Corcoran, Joseph W. Drexel, S. P. Dewey, Roswell P. Flower, Ben-
jamin H. Field, Jay Gould, D. Willis James, Henry G. Marquand, Jose F. de
Navarro, Mrs. Jose F. de Navarro, Alfonso de Navarro, Antonio F. de Navarro,
John V. L. Pruyn, George W. Quintard, J. Meredith Read, Russell Sage, Mrs. Rus-
sell Sage, Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, Frederick D. Thompson, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Egbert L. Viele, Jas. Grant Wilson, and William C. Whitney. It is proposed
that one hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen shall subscribe $100 each, to
meet the cost of the statue and granite pedestal. Subscriptions may be sent to the
treasurer, Dr. George H. Butler, No. 23 West 44th Street, New York. A represen-
tation of the beautiful statue of the illustrious discoverer, by Sunol, may be seen in
the Record of July, 1888.
Lieut. Alpheus Robert French, believed to be the last survivor of the Black
Hawk War, and a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, was buried in Baltimore, Md.,
October 16, 1890. He was born in Chittenango, in this State, November 25, 1806. At
Snow Hill, Md., Mrs. Mary Jane Mills died October 21, 1890, at the great age of 102
years. Her father was killed in the warofi8i2 and she distinctly remembered the battle
of North Point, having heard the cannonading, as at that time she was living near
Baltimore. So far as known, the last survivor of that engagement was Chaplain-
General Gleig of the British army, who died in England, July 9, 1888, aged ninety-
two. Admiral Wallis, who received the surrender of the always unfortunate Chesa-
peake in Boston Harbor, June, 1813, if he lives until April 12, will then be one
hundred years old, having been born at Halifax in 1791. Sir Provo was entered on
the books of the British navy in 1795, so that he has actually been in the naval service
for the space of nearly ninety-six years. J. G, w.
An ancient chair in excellent preservation, once the property of Rev. John Beach,
was recently presented to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in accordance with the
expressed wish of the late Mrs. Johnson, his great-granddaughter. Mr. Beach was
1 8 9 r . ] Obituaries. c 7
a native of Stratford, and a graduate of Vale College in the class of 1721, who, after
officiating for eight years in the Congregational University at Newtown, conformed
to the Church of England, crossed the ocean for ordination, and continued from
1732 to 1782 the missionary of the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gos-
pel in Newtown and Redding. He was for a long time one of the best known and
most highly-respected of the clergy of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and an
able defender of its principles and polity. j. g. w.
The article on Augustine Herrman has been compiled from an address delivered
at Newark by the president of this Society, May 15, 1890, before the New Jersey His-
torical Society, of which General Wilson is an honorary member, and also from an
unfinished paper by Mr. R. H. Rattermann, which recently appeared in the Deutsch
Atnerikanich.es Magazine, issued in Cincinnati, Ohio, but now discontinued. For the
portrait and autograph of Herrman, the Record is indebted to the courtesy of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
The country residence of Alexander Hamilton, known as the Grange, has been
renewed and repaired. It is now used as a parsonage for St. Luke's Episcopal
Church, and the cluster of thirteen elm-trees, planted by Hamilton, adjoining his
home at I42d St., near the Tenth Avenue, as symbols of the thirteen States which
ratified the Constitution, have been enclosed by a neat wooden railing to protect
them from any possible injury. J. g. w.
A memoir of Judge William Paterson of the United States Supreme Court, and pre-
viously governor of New Jersey and a member of the United States Senate from that
State, who died in Albany in 1S06, while on a visit to his son-in-law, Gen. Stephen
Van Rensselaer, is now in preparation by the judge's son William Paterson, Esq., of
Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Addresses will be delivered before our Society during the present season by the
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, subject, the late " John Jacob Astor ; " by Dr. George Stewart,
Jr.. of Quebec, on *' Count Frontenac ; " and by Gen. William S. Stryker, Mr. Philip
R. Voorhees, and Major Asa Bird Gardiner, whose subjects will be announced in our
next number.
In the article on the Vredenborgh family in Record for October, 1890, page 166,
No. 27, " Garrett Van Benschoten " should be " Grietje Van Benschoten." The mis-
take is owing to the writer of the article not having had the proof-sheets for correc-
tion. G. H. v. W.
" ' There goes the greatest General in the Universe,' said a citizen of New York,
as Washington rode up Broadway, followed by his colored servant Billy Lee." — New
York Journal and Weekly Register, April 30, 17S7.
OBITUARIES.
Hon. Rufus H. King, of Catskill, New York, died there at his home on Broad
Street, September 13, 1890. His ancestry may be traced as follows : Elder Thomas1
King, the founder of the family in New England, was a resident of Scituate, Mass.,
as early as 1634. He was thrice married. By his first wife, Sarah, he had six chil-
dren. He left an interesting will dated 1691. Deacon Thomas- King, second son of
Elder Thomas, born 1645, married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Clapp, by
whom he had five sons and four daughters. She died in 1698, and the next year he
married (2) Deborah Briggs, who died in 171 1. Thomas died the same year, leaving
a will.
Ichabod* King, fourth son of Thomas, was born in Scituate in 1680, and died in,
Rochester, Plymouth County, Mass., in 1753. He had three wives, (i) Hannah
(2) Judith, widow of Job Gibbs, and (3) Mary Barlow, and ten children. Ebenezer
King, second son of Ichabod, had, by his first wife, Sarah, three children. Consider^
King, son of Ebenezer, was born in Freetown, Mass., May 13, 1738, and married Sarah
58
Obituaries, [Jan'>
Palmer, September i, 1760. He died March 16, 1786. Reuben* King, third son of
Consider, was born in Rochester, Mass., March 22, 1765 ; married Elizabeth Frisbee,.
and had eight children. Rufusi King, the eldest son of Reuben, born June I, 1791,
in Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York ; married January 6, 1818, Mary,
daughter of Nicholas and Hannah (Sisson) Cornell, and died May 21, 1821. He
had two children.
Hon. Rufus8 H. King, the subject of this memoir, was the only son of
Rums preceding, and was born in Rensselaerville, January 20, 1820. He was a
graduate of the Wesleyan University at Lima, New York, and began the study
of law with an uncle in Michigan, continuing the same with Danforth K. Olney at
Windham, later on with Peter H. Sylvester at Coxsackie. Mr. King was admitted
to the bar in 1845, and began the practice of law at Coxsackie in partnership with J.
C. Van Dyke. He was married the same year to Lucia H. Dwight, of Windham,
who survives him. They had no children. In 1847 Mr. King removed to Catskill,
where he entered into partnership with John Adams. Upon the death of Mr. Adams,
Mr. King became associated with Peleg C. Mattoon, and afterward with D. K. and
J. B. Olney. After J. B. Olney's death, the firm became Olney & King, and later on
King & Hallock — Joseph Hallock having taken the place made vacant by the death
of D. K. Olney. This partnership continued until April 19, 1880, when Mr. King
withdrew from the practice of law. He did not cease, however, to take an active
interest in business affairs, and became trustee of a number of large estates, Presi-
dent of the Catskill Savings Bank, and Director in other institutions.
Mr. King was in politics a Whig and afterward a Republican. In 1854 he was
elected to the 34th Congress from his district. In i860 he was one of the Presidential
electors of Lincoln and Hamlin. In 1865 he was made President of the Catskill
National Bank, and served for two years. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican
National Convention, and supported the nomination of General Grant for President.
Mr. King was greatly interested in the affairs of his own town, and ever ready to aidt
any plan for its improvement. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and
the funeral services were held there, the Rev. Dr. Johnson, of Cohoes, an old friend of
Mr. King's, with others, conducting the service. The interment was in the village
cemetery. Members of the Greene County bar met at the court house on September
16, to honor Mr. King's memory, and many tributes were paid to his acknowledged
worth. The Trustees of the Catskill Savings Bank and the Directors of the
Tanners' National Bank also passed appropriate resolutions. The particulars of
ceremonies have been preserved in a memorial pamphlet, a copy of which has been
placed in the library of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
R. K.
A stroke of apoplexy caused the retirement of John J. Latting from the bar in>
1885, and a second stroke caused his death on Tuesday night, December 16th, at his
home, No. 180 West Seventy-fourth Street, in this city. Mr. Latting practised law
in New York for over forty years. Born in Lattingtown, Long Island, March 31,.
1819, upon the property, which in 1681 his ancestors purchased from the Matinecock
Indians, and being graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in the class of 1S38,
he studied law in the office of Francis B. Cutting, and when admitted to the bar entered
into partnership with Caleb S. Woodhull, afterward Mayor of New York. In 1S56
he was a member of the firm of Wakeman, Latting & Phelps (Abraham Wakeman
and Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to England). Subsequently, upon the retirement
of Mr. Phelps, the firm became Wakeman & Latting. After his retirement in 1885.
Mr. Latting went to Europe for his health, and was apparently much benefited. He
married on June 5, 1849, Harriet A. Emerson, daughter of the Rev. Brown Emer-
son, D.D., of Salem, Mass. They had six children, of whom four survive. The
interment was at Greenwood. Mr. Latting was for many years an active member
of our Society and of the Publication Committee. His funeral was attended by the
President and other members of the Society. J. g. w.
The Rev. Edmund Willoughby Sewell, A.M., a son of the late Jonathan Sewell,
Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, and the oldest Church of England clergyman
in Canada, died October 24, 1890, in the City of Quebec, where he was born Septem-
ber 3, 1800. His education was completed in England; he was for many years connected
with the Quebec Cathedral, and he was proprietor and pastor of the Church of the
Holy Trinity, generally known as " Mr. Sewell's Chapel." He had retired for the
past decade from the active duties of the ministry. j. g. \v.
1 89 1.] Book Notices. cq
BOOK NOTICES.
Bibliographic Notes on Eliot's Indian Bible and on his Other Trans-
lations and Works in the Indian Language of Massachusetts. Extract
from a " Bibliography of the Algonquin Languages." (Ornament.) Washington :
Government Printing Office, 1S90. Folio, pp. 58, paper covers.
It would he difficult to find a work exhibiting evidences of more painstaking re-
search than this production of Mr. Wilberforce Eames of the Lenox Library in New
York City, which will from henceforth have a foremost place as a specimen of Ameri-
can bibliography. Whoever desires information in regard to the Indian Bible and
other works in the Indian language, by John Eliot, can refer to its pages for infor-
mation not elsewhere to be found. Facsimiles of the title-pages of the Old and New
Testaments of both editions ; of the first page of the Metrical Psalms ; of the first
page of the Leaf of Rules at the end of the Bible ; of title-pages and leaves of Prim-
ers, and of the Logick Primer ; of Baxter's Call ; of Bishop Baily's Practice of Piety ;
of the Indian Grammar ; and of Shepherd's Sincere Convert are given with wonderful
accuracy. Mr. Bartlett published a list of twenty-seven copies of the Indian Bible in
the Historical Magazine for September, 1858. Dr. O'Callaghan compiled a list of
twenty-six copies in his work on American Bibles. Mr. Paine enlarged the list in 1S73
to fifty-four copies. Mr. Eames gives an account of ninety-four copies, a few of which
are in European libraries. He says : " Further research will bring to light many more
copies." Few and far between must they be to have escaped his narrow search. Let
no one suppose for a moment that his prophecy will lead to any depreciation of prices
for copies which may chance to be offered for sale. Dr. Trumbull of Hartford,
Conn., has said that " An interesting paper might be made by bringing together such
fragments of all known copies of Eliot's Bible as could be gathered from the auto-
graph, names, and notes of their former owners." Mr. Eames has given abundant
proof of the truthfulness of this statement. All the information that could be gathered
in regard to present and past ownership, the original and present condition, the prices
fetched, the peculiarities of each and every copy, is here minutely given. The errors
in the statements of others, even of that well-nigh infallible historical scholar, Dr.
Trumbull, are modestly pointed out. The work may not contain all the facts which
should have been obtained, because some owners were unable, or unwilling, or ne-
glected to reply to Mr. Barnes's inquiries. An interesting and accurate biographical
sketch of the Indian apostle closes the work. The probable place of his birth, the
date and place of his baptism, and the date of his death, recorded incorrectly in
the inscription on the parish tomb in the graveyard at Roxbury, Mass., are correctly
stated.
Genealogia Bedfordiensis ; Being a Collection of Evidences Relating
Chiefly to the Landed Gentry of Bedfordshire, a.d. 153S-1700. Edited,
with notes, by Frederick Augustus Blaydes. London. Printed for the author. 1890.
This elegant and costly volume, of which only a hundred copies have been printed,
consists of records collected out of parish registers, the bishop's transcripts, early
wills, and monumental inscriptions. Forty-seven parish registers have been searched
and examined. They are, upon the whole, in a fair state of preservation. " Those
well cared for and kept in the more equable temperature of the parsonage study," the
author observes, "are likely to last for all time ; whereas those kept in the damp, stag-
nant atmosphere of our too often, alas ! barred and bolted churches are gradually
but surely decaying." It has not been possible, in all cases, to verify the date when
each register commences, but twenty-one begin in 1538, while one, that of Biggles-
wade, dates only from 1760. The bishop's transcripts, which cover the whole county
of Bedford, date chiefly from 1604. Their utility in supplying the deficiencies in
early registers is very great. They are often found to contain " the data necessary
to complete the links of evidence wanting in many a pedigree, and in some cases they
have been produced in law courts to prove claims to estates and titles." These are
the words of the author again. The early wills, relating to this county, go back as
far as 1496. Abstracts of and references to about Soo wills have been incorporated in
this volume. More than 13,000 extracts from these records have been made. The
object of the author was to collect every scrap of evidence relating to the families
60 Book Notices. [Jan.,
whose pedigrees are entered in the visitations of Bedfordshire. He has added, how-
ever, evidences relating to families of other counties, to citizens of London, and to
the clergy, "anything in fact likely to prove useful to the genealogist."
Capt. Francis Champernowne, The Dutch Conquest of Acadie, and
Other Historical Papers. By Charles Wesley Tuttle, Esq., Ph.D. Edited by
Albeit Harrison Hoyt, A.M. With a memoir of the author, by John Ward Dean,
A.M. Boston : John Wilson & Son, 1890. 300 copies.
This is a collection of some of the more important unpublished papers left by Mr.
Tuttle at the time of his death in 1S81. The memoir by Mr. Dean gives an interest-
ing account of the author, who found time, in the midst of his labors as an astronomer
in Harvard University, and afterwards as a lawyer at Newburyport, for historical
studies, to which, indeed, in the latter part of his life, he devoted himself with great
zeal and energy. His principal work, " The Founders of New Hampshire,-' he left
unfinished. In fact, he wrote no great historical work, unless his " Life of Capt.
John Mason " can be so considered. He published, however, in the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register many important articles, a list of which is given
in the present volume (p. 33). Lists of his contributions to the publications of various
learned societies were left by him in manuscript and are to be deposited with the New
England Historic Genealogical Society and with the Massachusetts Historical Society.
" Mr. Tuttle's contributions to historical literature,"' we are told by his biographer,
" are of great value. Their trustworthiness is a marked characteristic. His re-
searches were thorough and unremitting. He expressed his ideas with clearness and
perspicuity, and yet with beauty and grace." ,
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New
York. Marriages from December ir, 1639, to August 26, 1S01. Edited, with
an Introduction, by Samuel S. Purple, M.D. With illustrations. New York.
Printed for the Society. 1890.
This noble octavo forms the first volume of the collections of the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society, and it will soon be followed by two others
containing the baptisms during the same period. It is unnecessary to speak of the
great value of this important publication, the edition of which is limited to one hun-
dred numbered copies. No large library in the country should be without it, and to
old Knickerbocker families it will be invaluable. The volume before us has been
carefully edited by Dr. Purple, one of the vice-presidents of the Society, who has con-
tributed an admirable historical introduction and an exhaustive index of names. It
contains an interesting facsimile of the first manuscript page of the marriage records,
and an excellent engraving of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, a former member of the
Society, to whom the volume is very appropriately dedicated. J. G. w.
History of the American Episcopal Church from the Planting of the
Colonies to the End of the Civil War. By S. D. McConnell, D.D., Rector
of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia. 1 vol.. i2mo, pp. 392. New York: Thomas
Whittaker. 1890.
In this well-printed volume the author has given a clear and concise account of the
American Protestant Episcopal Church, which it would seem that no member of that
important religious body could read without advantage. The interest in the story,
which covers a period of two and a half centuries, never flags, and could not possibly
be related in a more interesting and accurate manner. The surprising thing about
this valuable volume is, that the world should have waited so long for such a compila-
tion as Dr. McConnell has now given us. The statement on page 69 that Peter
Minuit landed with his colony at Wilmington in 1737 is perhaps a typographical error.
It should be a hundred years earlier. That Christ Church, Philadelphia, was built in
1600, as stated on page 81, is of course a mistake. Jilt was erected a century later.
j. G. w.
Richard Henry Dana. A Biography. By Charles Francis Adams. 2 vols.,
i2mo, pp. 378-436. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
It may be questioned if, during the year 1890, any better or brighter piece of
American biography appeared from the press than Mr. Adams's account of Richard
Henry Dana. The work could not have been intrusted to a more competent person,
for the biographer had been a law student in his subject's office, and a life-long friend,
1 8 9 1 • 1 Book Notices. 6i
so that he knew Mr. Dana as well, perhaps, as he was known to anyone beyond his
immediate family circle. This appreciative and charming story of the career of an
eminent lawyer, accomplished gentleman, and the author of " Two Years before the
Mast," cannot fail to attract a wide circle of admiring readers. Two excellent steel
portraits accompany the tasteful and well printed volumes. J. G. w.
A Copy of the Registers of the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at
Church of St. George, in the Parish of Wilton, in the County of Somer-
set, from a.d. 155S to a.d. 1S37. Transcribed by Joseph Houghton Spencer.
Taunton: Barnicott & Son, 1890.
The value of original records to local historians and genealogists is great ; and, as
it is becoming better understood, industrious and zealous students are directing their
attention to the reproduction and publication of parish registers. The present vol-
ume is a careful and laborious contribution to this department of genealogical work.
Works of this kind, extending as they do over the years of the great emigrations, are
likely to be useful to American genealogists. A slight hint, even if it do no more,
may point out the direction in which inquiries should be made.
Quarter Millennial Celebration of the City of Taunton, Massachu-
setts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1S89. Published by the City
Government, 1889.
In this copiously illustrated octavo volume of 426 pages is carefully reproduced
all that was said and done on the first memorial occasion in the history of Taunton.
The celebration was a great success, and the Committee on Publication express the
hope that this well-printed work may suggest to some future historian a more complete
account of ancient Taunton than has yet been written. An index would have added
to the value of this entertaining volume.
The Cosmopolitan. An illustrated monthly magazine. Edited by John Bris-
ben Walker. Vol. X., No. 2. New York.
Under its present proprietors the COSMOPOLITAN has steadily advanced until
it now takes rank with the Century, Harper's, and Scribner's Magazines. In the
holiday number before us there is an exhaustive and interesting monograph on Field-
Marshal Von Moltke, written by General Wilson, who has the advantage of being a •
friend and correspondent of the illustrious German soldier, now in his ninety-first year. V
The article is accompanied by an admirable portrait, and other illustrations. »
The Livingstons of Callendar and their Principal Cadets. A Family
History. By Edward Brockholst Livingston, F. S. A Part II. 1890.
No. IV. Part II., of The Livingstons of Callendar begins with the Scottish
ancestry of the Livingstons and is carried down to Robert I ivingston, third Lord
of the Manor. The work, as in the previous numbers, shows great care in its
compilation. It contains the autographs and seals of the heads of the house in
Scotland, and numerous portraits of the Lords of the Manor of Livingston in this
country. This part closes with a copious appendix E. T.
Genealogies of the Raymond Families of New England. 1630-31 to
1866. Compiled by Samuel Raymond. Svo, pp. 300. New York. Press of J. J.
Little & Co. 1S86.
This work, "The Raymond Genealogy," deserves much praise. It is carefully
arranged and has an excellent index. The author adds a history of the Raymonds
both in England and on the Continent. There is also a number of pages devoted to
the roll of patriots of this family, who served their country in our several wars, a
record of which any family might well be proud. E. T.
The Dows or Dowse Family in America. 1642-1890. Compiled by Azro
Milton Dows. Svo, pp. 348. Lowell, Mass., 1890.
It is evident that much time and labor has been spent in collecting the data for
this genealogy. The descent is traced from Lawrence Dows, who came to this
country previous to the year 1642. The work is carefully compiled, well printed, and
has a good index. " The list of those who served in war." from King Philip's War
to those engaged in the late Civil War (some ninety in all) is an interesting feature
of the volume. E- T-
■62 Donations to the Library. [Jan.,
The Bartow Family in England. By the Rev. Evelyn P. Bartow. Provi-
dence, R. I., 1890. Illustrated.
This work, which completes Mr. Bartow's former volume, does him great credit.
It is the result of much care and study. Pains have been taken to verify his state-
ments. More than half the book consists of original sources of information, wills,
records, and the like. It is the work of a careful and accomplished genealogist.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
From J. C. Pumpelly. Handbook of the American Revolution, by Justin Winsor.
Boston, 1880 — Life and Times of Alex. Hamilton, by Reithmuller. London, 1864 —
Orators of the American Revolution, by E. L. Magoon. New York, 1848 —
Life of Benedict Arnold, by Geo. Canning Hill. New York, 1884 — The German
Element in the War of Independence, by Geo. W. Green. New York, 1876 —
Heroes of the American Revolution. Boston, 1855 — Three Americans and Three
Englishmen, by Johnson. London. — Benjamin Franklin, by John Bache McMaster.
New York, 1887— Sketch of J. F. D. Lanier, by F. D. Lanier. New York, 1872 —
Sketch of Moses Bigelow, by Sam. Bigelow. Newark, N. J., 1889 — Memorial of Joel
Parker, by James Yard. Freehold, N. J., 1889 — Memorial of the Rev. John John-
ston, by James Carnalian. New York, 1856 — Darling Family, by C. W. Darling.
Utica, N. Y. 1888 — Pioneers of France in the New World, by Parkman. Boston,
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and Other Addresses, by J. C. Pumpelly. Morristown, N. J., 1890.
From Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. A Maryland Manor. An Address, by the donor.
Baltimore, 1890 — Trow's New York City Directory, 1885 — The Parish Year Book
of St. James' Church. New York, 1889 — Quarter Millennial Celebration of Taunton,
Mass. Published by the city, 1890 — Havvley Genealogy, by Elias S. Hawley.
Large Folio. Buffalo, N.Y., 1890. Journal of the New York Diocesan Con-
vention of 1890.
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St. Nicholas Club. New York, 1890 — Genealogia Bedfordiensis, by Fred. A.
Blaydes. London, 1890 — Notes and Queries : Somerset and Dorset, Vol. I., and II.,
by Fred. W. Weaver. Sherborne, Eng., 1889-90 — History of the town of South-
ampton. Published by the town, 1874.
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donor. Utica, 1890 — Unpublished Washington Portraits, Proceedings Oneida His-
torical Society. Utica, 1889 — Addresses before the Oneida Historical Society.
Utica, 1890 — Address before the Young Men's Christian Association, by Bishop
Potter. Boston, 1890.
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nickson, M.D. Sketches of Local Usages of Olden Times, by Edw. S. Sharpe,
M.D., Salem, N. J., 1890.
From Ellsworth Eliot, M.D. Life and Character of J. II. Van Der Palm, by
J. P. Westervelt. The Life of Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, by Joseph P. Thompson.
New York, 1875.
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Some of the Beginnings of Westchester Co., by Alonzo B. Cornell. New York,
1890.
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Board of Trade. Hartford, T890.
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ark, 1890.
From Irving C. Gaylord. The Hamilton-Burr Duel, by the donor. New York,
1 890.
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OF THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPH-
ICAL SOCIETY.
Charles H. Adams 18S8
Daniel Appleton 1887
Edward D. Appleton 188S
William W. Appleton ] 887
Edmund S. F. Arnold, M.D 1886
William Waldorf Astor, Life 1881
Henry H. Arthur 1889
William Austin 1889
Mrs. Catharine R. Baetjer 1889
James M. Bailey 1870
Theodore M. Banta 1886
Gerard Beekman 1890
Samuel P. Bell 1874
George Bliss 1888
Henry Bergh. 1888
Rev. Beverley R. Betts 1871
Robert F. Bixby, Life 188 r
Theophylact B. Bleecker rS86
Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, U. S. N 1888
Clarence W. Bowen, Life 1888
Cephas Brainerd 1888
Edward Braman 1887
George H. Brewster 1874
A. Norton Brockway, M.D 1876
Arthur Brooks. D.D 1889
Joseph O. Brown 1872
Samuel Burhans, Jr 1878
Gen. Henry L. Burnett 1889
George H. Butler, M.D 1877
Gen. Daniel Butterfield 1888
Amory S. Carhart, Life 1881
Daniel H. Carpenter 1879
J. Herbert Claiborne, M.D 1S89
Charles F. Clark 188S
Bayard Clarke, Jr 1880
Col Floyd Clarkson 188S
Matthew Clarkson, Life 1869
William Clarkson, Life 1869
Alphonso T. Clearwater 1888
Grover Cleveland, Hon 1885
Alfred R. Conkling 1888
R. Carman Combes 1875
Alonzo B. Cornell, Hon 1881
George F. Cornell 1889
Thomas C. Cornell 18S7
S. Victor Constant, Life 1888
Alexander J. Cotheal 1878
Samuel D. Coykendall, Life 18S8
C. W. Crispell, M.D 1889
S. Van- Rensselaer Cruger 1888
Cornelius C. Cuyler 1889
William G. Davies 1888
Albert A. Davis, M.D 1890
Maturin L. Delafield, Life 1874
Edward F. De Lancey, Life 1869
George G. De Witt, Jr 1889
Ethan A. Doty 1873
Henry T. Drowne, Life
William M. Dubois
Rev. Arthur W. H. Eaton
Ellsworth Eliot. M.D., Life
Thomas G. Evans
Thomas W. Edsall
Hamilton R. Fairfax
James C. Fargo
Floyd Ferris
Benjamin H. Field, Life
Thomas A. Fletcher, M.D
John D. Flower
Frederick De Peyster Foster
Robert Ludlow Fowler
Thomas Powell Fowler
Frederick K. Gaston
Elbridge T. Gerry, Life
Samuel B. Goodale
James J. Goodwin, Life
Gen. George S. Greene
Isaac J. Greenwood
John P. Haines
Oswald Haldane
Clifford A. Hand
Gen. Benjamin Harrison, Hon
Miss Hasbrook
Bentley D. Hasell, Life
Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes, Hon. . .
Mrs. Henry Herrman, Life .
Benjamin D. Hicks, Life
Cornelius Hoagland, M.D., Life . .
Rev. R. Randall Hoes, U. S. N. . .
Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Hon
William F. Holcombe, M.D
Francis J. Hopson, Jr
Col. Woolsey K. Hopkins
Joseph Jackson Howard, Hon
Collis P. Huntington
Edmund Abdy Hurry
Frederick E. Hyde
George L. Ingraham
John B. Ireland
Miss Elizabeth C. Jay, Life
A. D. L. Jewitt, D.D
Morris K. Jesup
Samuel W. Johnson
John D. Jones, Life
Rufus King
Charles Kellogg.
William P. Ketcham
William E. Ketcham
Augustus S. Kidder, M.D
Beverley O. Kinnear, M.D
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb
Charles L. Lamberton
Isaac Lawrence
Mrs. James K. Lawton, Life
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James R. Learning, M.D 1889
David Bradley Lee 1888
William H. Lee 1880
Henry W. Leroy 1890
Joseph J. Little 1889
Johnstone Livingston, Life 1871
Herbert de Nyse Lloyd 1888
Edward L. Ludlow, Life 1881
Oscar K. Lyle 1889
Archdeacon Mackey-Smith 1888
Isaac W. Maclay 1875
Alrick H. Mann 1881
Henry G. Marquand 1889
Mrs. Margaret Herbert Mather. . . . 1888
Douglas Merritt, Life 1871
William E. Montgomery 1889
Charles B. Moore, Life 1869
William H. H. Moore, Life 1873
J. Pierpont Morgan, Life 1888
Levi P. Morton 1888
Rev. W. R. Mulford, Life 1S80
Jose F. de Navarro, Life 1888
Edward Herbert Noyes 1889
Mrs. Thomas J. Owen, Life 1888
Henry D. Paine, M.D 1870
Charles John Palmer, Hon 1S74
Courtlandt Parker 1889
Albert Ross Parsons 1889
Comte de Paris, Hoti 1890
George H. Peabody 1881
Howland Pell, Life 1890
John H. Pell 1881
William Poillon 1874
John F. Plummer ... 1890
John V. L. Pruyn 1881
Josiah C. Pumpelly 1890
Samuel S. Purple, M.D., Life 1S69
Gen. J. Meredith Read, Life 1885
Mrs. Sylvanus Reed 1884
Theodore F. Reed 1889
Lucius Robinson, Hon 1876
Theodore Roosevelt 1881
William P. Robinson 1887
Hiram R. Romeyn 1S89
Thomas Rutter 1888
Russell Sage 1888
Robert Schell 1889
Charles A. Schermerhorn 1890
Eugene D. Schieffelin 1888
Mrs. Lucas E. Schoonmaker 1889
Gen. William T. Sherman, Hon... 1888
John Schuyler 1890
Spencer D. Schuyler 1875
Frederick W. Seward 1888
Mrs. Leroy N. Shear , 1870
John Shrady, M.D 1876
Cornelius B. Smith, D.D 1889
Isaac P. Smith 1888
Philip S. Smith 1889
Isaac T. Smith 1888
James H. Smith 1S90
George H. Smyth, D.D 1889
Gerald N. Stanton 1890
Byam K. Stevens, Life 1889
Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens 1885
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles 1890
Inglis Stuart 1889
Morris D. Stevens 1881
Daniel T. Stevens 1890
Henry R. Stiles, M.D., Hon 1869
J. E. Stilwell, M.D 1S88
Anson Phelps Stokes 1889
William L. Stone 1889
Gen. William S. Stryker 1889
Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, Life 1888
John Schureman Sutphin 1889
Satterlee Swartwout 1889
Frederick S. Tallmadge 1888
Frederick D. Thompson, Life 1877
Mrs. Howard Townsend i838
Randolph W. Townsend 1880
Edward Trenchard 1888
Bayard Tuckerman 1888
[erris A. Van Auken 1889
Charles M. Vail 1889
Cornelius Vanderbilt . 1881
Warren Van Norden 1889
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer 1890
George Van Siclen 1889
Elias W. Van Voorhis 1881
Philip R. Voorhees 1890
Gerrit H.Van Wagenen 1S76
E. de V. Vermont 1886
Salem H. Wales 1S88
John Brisben Walker 1890
Col. John Ward 1888
Louis T. Warner, M.D., Life 1S69
John A. Weeks 1871
Rev. Theodore W. Welles 1S90
Jacob Wendell, Life 1888
John S. White 1888
William T. White, M.D 1886
Octavius A. White, M.D 1890
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson, Life 1880-
Gen. Edward F. Winslow, Life. . . . 1888
Robert C. Winthrop, Hon 1881
Isaac F. Wood, Life 1870
Mrs. Edward L. Youmans 1888
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THE NEW YORK
genealogical aito ^iograplncal Jeeorb.
Vol. XXII. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1S91. No. 2.
GENERAL R. MONTGOMERY AND HIS DETRACTORS.*
By J. M. Le Moine, F.R.S.C.
The following is a short summary of what was done in Quebec to
rescue from unmerited censure the name of the brave but ill-faied com-
mander, Richard Montgomery, who fell at Pres-de-ville, at Quebec, on
31st December, 1775. Several years have now elapsed since I undertook
to vindicate the memory of Brig. -Gen. Richard Montgomery, unjustly
aspersed by several of our leading French historians in Canada, who had
confounded him with his barbarous brother, Capt. Alexander Mont-
gomery. As some writers have still persisted in holding Richard respon-
sible for the acts of Alexander, notwithstanding the convincing proof I
adduced in the Saturday Reader, in 1866, it may not be amiss to reca-
pitulate the salient points in my memoir. The charge of atrocious
cruelty, brought by French writers against R. Montgomery, rests on
the supposition that he was the "barbarous Captain Montgomery, who
commanded us " (the 43d Foot) — alluded to in Lieutenant Fraser's
Diary of the Siege of Quebec, in 1759 — the entry runs thus: "23
Aug. 1759 — 'there were several of the enemy (the French) killed and
wounded, and a few prisoners taken, all of whom the barbarous Captain
Montgomery, who commanded us, ordered to be butchered in the most
inhuman and cruel manner, particularly two who I (Lieutenant Fraser)
sent prisoners by a serjeant, after giving them quarter, and engaging that
they should not be killed, were one shot, and the other knocked down
with a tomahawk and both scalped in my absence by the rascally Ser-
jeant neglecting to acquaint Montgomery, that I wanted them saved, as
he, Montgomery pretended when I questioned him about it ; but even
that was no excuse for such an unparalleled piece of barbarity. After
this skirmish, we set to burning the houses with great success setting all
in flames, till we came to the church of Ste. Anne " (Siege of Quebec, 1759,
Fraser). 1 also for a time accepted the version promulgated by my
respected seniors — until the discovery, in the archives of the Literary and
Historical Society, of documents which the Society, at my suggestion,,
printed. I alluded to a dry-as-dust MS. letter which I found one day in
ransacking among some old papers — it bore date, "Quebec, 15th June,
1776 " — was addressed to a general officer in England — the writer's
friend ; the latter part of the letter was missing, and so was the signature.
In comparing date with context, it was easy for me to fix on the writer ;
* For an article on the ancestry of General Montgomery, see Record for July,
1871, Vol. II., pp. 123. — Editor.
56 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. [April,
evidently it was Major H. Caldwell, unbosoming himself to his old com-
mander, Brig.-Gen. James Murray. At p. 7 occurred the following, in
alluding to the city blockade of 1775 : "General Montgomery (brother
of him you might remember at Quebec, and lately a Capt. in the 17th
Regt. ''). There was a luminous flash in these few words ; two Mont-
gomerys, then, I said, served King George II. in America, in the summer
of 1759 — Capt. Alexander Montgomery of the 43d, the regiment detailed
to ravage with fire and sword St. Joachim, Ste. Anne, etc., near Quebec —
the commanding officer of the detachment connected with the Ste. Anne
butchery, as stated by his subaltern, Lieutenant Fraser. Being then in
correspondence with the late George Coventry, of Cobourg, who had been
charged by the Hon. Wm. Merritt to transcribe MSS. on our late wars,
I induced him to help me to clear up this point, and to write to the War
Office in London to ascertain what regiment, and how many Mont-
gomerys, had served in the campaign of 1759 at Quebec.
On the 2 2d September, 1866, Lieutenant-General Peel, Secretary at
War, instructed his secretary, Ed. Lugard, to furnish Mr. Coventry with
full particulars in reply to his inquiry. This courteous letter was sent
me by old Mr. Coventry. It established conclusively that Alexander
was the name of the Captain Montgomery of the 43d ; and the Mont-
gomery of the 17th a lieutenant in 1759 — was named Richard. We all
know that the name of the luckless leader of the storming party at Pres-
de-ville, Quebec, on the 31st December, 1775, was Richard Montgomery.
My memoir, with the documents on which it rests, appeared first in the
Saturday Reader, published in Montreal in 1866 — a French version was
put forth in the Album du Touriste, pp. 3-6, printed at Quebec in 1872,
and is referred to in detail in the Report of the Centenary Anniversary
of the repulse of Montgomery and Arnold before Quebec in 1775. See
Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society, of Quebec, for 1876.
Spencer Grange, Quebec, New Year's Eve, 1890.
ARCHIBALD THOMSON AND JACOBA SCHUURMAN,
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
By Richard Wynkoop, of Brooklyn.
The descendants of this couple, for the most part, write the name
Thompson : in the early church records at New Brunswick, N. J., the
name appears without the/>, and also with it.
The parentage of Archibald has not been ascertained. He is sup-
posed to have been of the Perth Amboy line. His name is not found in
the baptismal records of New Brunswick, nor of New York City ; and the
family records of the Elizabethtown line do not contain his name. He
was of Scotch descent.
He was received, on confession, by the church at N. B., Aug. 10,
1 74 1, and his name recorded Tompson. His wife was received, on
confessii n, Nov. 9, 1750, " Coba Scheunnan huys vrouw van Archabel
189'.] Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. 67
tomson." She was child of Jacobus Schuurman and Antje Terhune,
and was baptized at N. B., Feb. 2, 1724.
[Archibald m. 2d Elizabeth Stryker. She was sister to Rev. Peter
Stryker. (Man. Ref. Ch., 1879, P- 4^9-) Descendants by this second
marriage will be briefly mentioned here. There were six children :
Archibald A, who lived at N. Bruns. ; d. 1S56 ; m., Mch. 1795, Maria
Bordine: Jane, bap. N. B. , Au°\ 9, 1761 ; d. unmarried : Jacoba, bap.
N. B., July 16, 1763 ; prob. d. an infant ; Jannetje, bap. Passaic, May 19,
1765 ; Jacobus, bap. May 3, 1767 ; Pieter, bap. May 20,1770. The g.
c. were : (a) George ; bap. N. B. Aug. 6, 1795 ; lived at Changewater,
Sussex Co. ; left two sons : (b) Nicholas, bap. Sept. 30, 1798 ; had a son
Jacques, who prob. d. in the Union Army ; (c) Elizabeth Stryker ; bap.
June 7, 1801 : m. to Coddington ; (d) Catharine Shipman ; bap. July 10,
1803 ; m. to Abram Oakey ; (e) Dinah Anne ; bap. Aug. 21, 1807 ; prob.
d. an infant; (f) Frederick Bordine, who wrote his name Thomson ; a mis-
sionary; m. 1st Catharine Wyckoff ; 2d Emma Cecilia Combe, a Swiss
missionary : their dau. Helen Maria settled in Switzerland ; and another
daughter, Maria, was m. to Rev. Matthew N. Oliver ; (g) John ; m.
Osborn ; no children ; lived at Prospect Plains : all children of Archibald
A.]
Children of Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman.
2. John, "Captain." In 1767 he was the only navigator between
Am boy and New York, and he commanded a packet on that route in
1775. He m. June 30, 1766, Jane Stryker, who was dau. of Peter
Strycker and Antje De Riemer, in the judgment of the present writer :
but this parentage is questioned.
Captain John, and his cousin, James Schuurman, whose name has
come down to us with the spelling Schureman, were taken prisoners by
the British at Lawrence's Brook (" Laurens ") and were transferred to New
York, where they were confined in the " sugar-house, " and there they
were befriended by a Tory named Kesick, Kisuyck, or Kissock, for whom
he named one of his children, somewhat to the annoyance of the son,
but the name very justly adhered to him, as a memorial of kindness.
The Captain lived at New Brunswick, where his son John was graduated at
Queens College, 1794, until 1798, when he removed, with his family, to
Charlton, N. Y., and settled down at Fonda's Bush, now BrQadalbin.
His son Peter lived at New Brunswick, subsequently.
3. George ; bap. N. B., July 21, 1751, "Joris" ; m. Mary William-
son, with a license dated Dec. 11, 1778. They lived at Rhode Hall,
near Cranberry, N. J. The wife was dau. of David Williamson and
Eleanor Schuyler, and sister of Eleanor, wife of James Schureman above
mentioned. After George's death, Mary became wife of Thomas
McDowell.
4. Anna ; bap. Aug. 12, 1753. 5. Jacoba; bap. Oct. 16, 1757.
Third Generation.
Children of John Thompson (2) and Jane Stryker.
6. Peter ; bap., N. B., March 22, 1767 ; m. Nov. 5 , Christina,
dau. of Judge Abraham Schuyler and Alechi Voorhees. He lived at New
68 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Sclnmrman. [April,
Brunswick, although it seems that he had gone with his father to New
York.
6a. Margaret ("Thomson ") ; bap. March 5, 1769.
7. Archibald; bap. April 26, 1770; m. Catharine Applegate.
8. Jane ; 2d wife of Rev. Conrad Ten Eyck, whose 1st wife was Eliza-
beth Thompson, said to have been daughter of "Judge Thompson," by
whom he had two sons, William and Conrad, and also, prob. , Hendrick
Buyer, bap. Somerville, July 25, 1790.
9. John ; physician ; d. Feb. 1853, 78, 4 ; gr. Queen's College, 1794 ;
m., 1798, Mary Lyell, dau. of a sea captain, Thomas Lyell, g. s. of
David de Lyell, a settler at Perth Amboy, about 1697. Thomas's wife
was a Fanny Mary Thompson, whose mother was prob. a Lorraine.
10. Anne ("Nancy"); d. 1851, 75, 4; m. Nov. 28, 1797, to Rev.
Dr. Matthew La Rue Perrine ; b. Freehold, N. J., May 4, 1777 ; d. at
Auburn, N. Y. , Feb. 11, 1836; gr. Princeton, 1797; licensed 1799;
missionary in Penn. and N. Y. ; Pies. ch. at Bottle Hill, N. J., 1802,
and, subsequently, at South Hanover till 181 1; Spring st. ch., N. Y.,
181 1-20; Prof. Eccl. Hist, and Ch. Polity, Auburn Seminary, May 2,
1821, till his death, and Prof, of Theology also for two years; D.D.
Alleghany College, 1818. They had no children, and he educated for
the ministry two of his wife's nephews — Perrine, s. of Dr. John, and
Archibald, s. of George. He bought a farm at Broadalbin, and sold it
to Isaac S. Thompson.
11. Elizabeth (" Betsey ") ; bap. N. B., May 4, 1780 ; m. Jan. 1809
to Peter Van Neste. Most of the descendants write the name without
the final e ; a few write it Van Ness. They lived and died at West Sparta,
N. Y. Van Neste, by a former wife, had a son, Peter P., m. Catharine
Vosburg, and removed to Penn.
12. Isaac Schurman ; b. Oct., bap. Nov. — , 1782, N. B. ; d. Sept.
1848 ; m. Jan. 23, 1806, Wilhelmina Bant. He lived at Broadalbin, on a
farm he had purchased from Dr. Perrine. He was an officer in the war
of 18 1 2, and was with the forces at Sackett's Harbor. He was known as
" Captain."
13. George ; b. Mch. 17, bap. May 10, 1785 ; d. Oct. 17, 1816 ; m.
Feb. 5, 181 1, Elizabeth ("Betsey") Fonda.
14. Philip Kisuyck ; b. Mch. 1, bap. Apl. 8, 1787; d. Oberlin,
O., Apl. 1859 ; m. 1st, June 30, 181 1, Eunice Gaylord, b. Sept. 20, 1787,
d. Jan. 10, 1826 ; m. 2d, Jan. 29, 1827, her sister Hannah, b. July 27,
1 79 1, d. Apl. 20, 1885. He was named for the Royalist, who had be-
friended his lather.
Children of George Tho?npson (3) and Mary Williamson.
15. Jacobus; bap. N. B., May 22, 1785. 16. David Williamson,
bap. Nov. 1 8, 1787.
Fourth Generation.
Children 0/ Archibald Thompson (6) and Catharine Applegate.
17. John Applegate. 18. Edward Willet, bap. N. B. , Sept. 13,
1795 ; d. at his home, Montgomery, Ala., unmarried. 19. Peter
Stryker ; bap. Sept. 17, 1797 ; lived in Alabama, and had children.
1 89 1.] Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. 60
Children of Peter Thompson (7) and Christina Schuyler.
20. Jane; bap. N. B., Aug. 1, 1790; d. Aug. 29, 1 7 9 1 , 1, 1, 19.
21. Abraham Schuyler; bap. May 13, 1792 ; m. Catharine Voorhees ;
lived at Sparta, N. Y. 22. Jane; bap. June 29, 1794, "Jain"; m. to
Jermine Weeks. 23. Alice (Aulche) ; hap. Apl. 24, 1796 ; d. 1, 3, 2.
24. Alice Schuyler (" Altje") ; d. Dec. 19, 1797, aged 40 hours. 24a.
John ; bap. Jan. 20, 1799 ; d. May 5, 1800, 1,5, 6. 25. Alice Schuyler ;
bap. Apl. 20, 1 80 1 (" Alche "). 26. John 2d ; d. Aug. 2, 1804, 16 mos.
27. Catharine L. ; d. Meherrin, Va., Oct. 1, 1880 ; m. to her cousin,
John T. Van Ness — as he writes it. They lived at first at Sparta, N. Y.
28. Staats ; d. young, unmarried. 29. Anne ; m. to Rev. Morris Barton.
30. Lettie ; m. to William Gale.
Children of Rev. Conrad Ten Eyck and Jane Thompson (8).
31. John Thompson; married; lived near Corning, N. Y. 32. Eliza-
beth Anne ("Betsey") ; m. to Rev. Rob. W. Hill, of East Bloomfield,
N. Y.; lives with her son, Rev. La Rue Hill, Corning. ^^- "Thomp-
son ;" went to Mich. 34. Bergen ; d. in California, recently.
35. Alice ("Elsie") ; m. to Rev. John Thalheimer, of Henrietta, N. Y.
Children of Dr. fohn Thompson (9) and Mary Lyell.
36. Thomas Lyell: b. Mch. 20, 1799; m. Helen Coolidge ; d. at
Schenectady, ^j. Jane* Anne ; b. Apl. 20, 1801 ; d. Feb. n, 1876;
m. 1824 to Adrian Kissam Hoffman, M.D., b. Mch. 26, 1797, d. May
5, 1871 ; their bodies buried in the cemetery at Sing Sing. 38. Frances
Maria (" Fanny") ; b. Feb. 27, 1805 ; m. to Rev. James Adams, who d.
in Mississippi ; lives at Kingston, N. Y. 39. Eliza : b. June 16, 1807 ;
d. Mch. 30, 1870, Boscabel, Wis.; m. Aug. 29, 1826, David Mead, b.
July 26, 1797, d. Eagle, Wis., Mch. 11, 1854. 40. Matthew La Rue
Perrine ; educated for the ministry by Dr. Perrine ; m. 1st Sarah Hooker;
2d Mary Norton ; d. in Europe. 41. Margaret; m. to Rev. Veile, or
Vail, of Cochecton, Penn.
Children of Peter Van Neste and Elizabeth Thompson (11).
42. Susan ; b. Mch. 17, 1810 ; m. Sept. 14, 1S36, to George S. Ker-
shaw, who d. Dec. 15, 1887; lives at Anacostia, D. C. 43. John ; b.
May 2, 181 1 ; d. an infant. 44. Jane M. ; b. Mch. 2, 1812 ; d. an in-
fant. 45. Peter Stryker, Rev. Dr.; b. Aug. 21, 1813 ; m. 1st, Nov. 1,
1842, Caroline Barker; m. 2d, Aug. 2, 1886, Mary Stewart; lives at
Genoa Junction, Wis.; writes his name Van Nest. 46. John Thompson ;
b. Sept. 21, 18 14 ; m. 1st, Dec. 5, 1836, his cousin, Catharine L. Thomp-
son (27) ; m. 2d, Oct. 6, 1881, Harriet S. Chapman, dau. of Isaac
Chapman, wid. of Chas. P. Bailey ; lived first at West Sparta, now at
Meherrin, Va. ; writes his name Van Ness. 47. Hannah Maria; b. Sept.
19, 1817; m. Feb. 24, 1842, to John W. Van Nest, not previously
related; survived him. 48. Jane Anne; b. Mch. 25, 1820; m. to
Henry Breen.
~o Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. [April,
Children of Isaac S. Thompson (12) and Wilhehnina Banl.
49. Jane Lyell ; b. 1806; m. to Hiram Whitlock, who d. 1847,
aged 68. 50. John; b. July, 1808; d. May, 1854; m. 1836 Mary
Capron. 51. Maria Bant; b. 1810 ; d. May 29, 1885, unmarried.
52. Margaret Akerman ; b. Feb. 5, 1813 ; m. 1st, Feb. 4, 1840, to
Lorain Sunderlin, who d. A pi. 24, 1847 ', m- 2cb Sept. 21, 1850, to
Samuel Gilchrist, who d. Oct. 7, 1871; lives at Herkimer, N. Y. ; much
of this material was obtained through her. 53. Peter; b. Dec. 25,
18 14 ; m. Apl. 6, 1837, Amanda Melvina Holdridge, who d. May
18, 1883 ; lived long at Saratoga Springs, now at Ceredo, W. Va., with
his daughter, w. of Pitt Hoard. 54. George; d. Dec. 19, 1864, aged
41 ; m. Martha O. Warner; no children. 55. Samuel Bant; b. Nov.
18 18 ; m. 1st, May. 1842, Harriet B. North, d. 1847: m. 2d, Mch.
1849, Lucy Melinda Norris ; lives at Broadalbin. 50. Anne Eliza ; b.
1820; d. Sept. 16, 1823, 3, 8. 57. Matthew La Rue Perrine : b.
1822 ; d. Apl. 19, 1826. 58. Anne Eliza ; b. 1824 ; d. Oct. 9, 1866 ;
m. Dec. 26, 1850, to James Madison Quinlan, Prof, in High School, New-
ark, N. J. 59. Matthew La Rue Perrine ; b. June 18, 1826 ; m. 1st,
Oct. 2, 1852, Martha Cleora Hayt, b. Sept. 27, 1832, d. Oct. 8, 1853,
dau. of John C. Hayt and Martha Towner ; m. 2d, May 20, 1857, Har-
riet Beach, b. Apl. 1, 1828, dau. of John Beach and Alma Seymour ;
lives at Whitney's Point, N. Y. 60. Helen Catharine ; b. Aug. 28,
1828 ; m. Nov. 19, 1 85 1, to Stephen Fuller, who d. 1884 ; lives at Her-
kimer. 61. Rachel Josephine ; d. Jan. 8, 1831, an infant.
Children of George Thompson (13) and Elizabeth Fonda.
62. George: a man of fine talents (a lawyer?). 63. Archibald;
clergyman ; b. Aug. 4, 1812 ; d. Mch. 5, 1885 ; m. 1st Eliza Kellogg;
2d Elizabeth Arnold ; was educated by his uncle, Dr. Perrine. 64.
Anne ; b. April 24, 1 S 14 ; m. Sept. 22, 1835, Isaac Henry Palmer, b.
Sept. 2. 1809, d. Jan. 31, 1889 ; lives at Lodi, Wis. 65. Jane ; b. Oct.
6, 1 8 16 ; m. May 18, 1842, to Orson Cook.
Children of Philip K. Thompson (14) and Eunice Gaylord.
66. Jane ; b. and d. April 5, 1812. 67. Hannah G. ; b. Mch. 22,
1813, at Broadalbin ; d. Feb. 1, 1844, at Nunda, N. Y. ; m. Feb. 7,
1832, at West Sparta, N. Y., to Rev. Edwards Marsh, a Pres. min., previ-
ously of Hamilton, Can. 68. Jane ; b. June 2, 1815 ; d. Apl. 29,
1843 ; m. Jan. 29, 1833, to Sam. Hale, a farmer, d. Jan. 31, 1877.
69. Mary Anne ; b. June 18, 18175m. Jan. 2S, 1841, to Rev. Theodore
John Keep, a Cong, min., b. Blanford, Mass., July 31, 1809, d. July 20,
1889, at Oberlin, O. He was grad. at Yale ; entered Lane Seminary ;
went to Oberlin with the seceders on the slavery question ; grad. 1836 ;
pastor one year of new church at Mansfield, O. ; Prin. of the Prepar-
atory Dept. of Oberlin, four years ; 20 years pastor of various churches in
Ohio ; settled down at Oberlin, about 1859 ! fitted his house as a home
for 25 or 30 self-supporting young women ; in 1888 made over his house
and lot to the college, in trust for such home, reserving accommodation
for himself and wife. jo. John ; b. June 22, 1819 ; m. Oct. 9, 1851,
1 89 1.] Archibald Thomson and facoba Schuurman. n\
Anne Eliza Glover ; grad. Union College ; a farmer at Greenoak, Mich.
71. Gaylord : b. Apl. 15, 182 1 ; m. Aug. 20. 1845, ^Isie Voorhees,
b. Sept. 20, 1 82 1 ; a farmer at Medina, O. 72. George ; b. Cortland,
N. Y., Aug. 22, 1823 ; m. Mch. 9, 1852, at Montville. ().. Susan McPher-
son, of Kirtland, O., b. June 1, 1828 ; a farmer at Medina. 73. Eliza ;
b. June 26, 1825 ; d- Feb. 27, 1873 ; m. Feb. 8, 1848, to Homer Brown
Thompson, b. Nov. n, 1825, d. Mch. 8, 1885, a dry goods merchant.
Children 0/ Philip K. Thompson (14) and Hannah Gaylord.
74. Eunice; b. Jan. 26, d. Sept. 12, 1828. 75. Eunice; b. Sept.
15, 1829, Sparta, N. Y. ; m. Aug. 31, 1853, to Rev. Aimer Harper, b.
May 20. 1826, Cong, min., Port Byron, III. 76. Archibald ; b. June
16, d. July 8, 1831. 77. Margaret; b. May 30, 1832; d. Dec. 19,
1855. 78. Fannie Maria; b. Oct. 12, 1834; m. Sept. 7, 1865, to
Joseph B. Clarke, Pres. Citizens' Nat. Bk., Oberlin.
Fifth Generation.
Children of Abram S. Thompson (21) and Catharine Voorhees.
79. Jane S. ; m. to Gideon Pa-sage ; Dansville, N. Y. 80. Ellen ;
m. to Hiram Hartman ; no children ; Dansville. 81. Christina ; m. to
Andrew Canaday ; Dansville. 82. Catharine ; married. 83. Staats ;
m. 1 st Elizabeth Passage; 2d Anna . 84. John C. ; m. Lucinda
Walker. 85. Peter.
Child of Rev. Morris Barton and Anne Thompson (29).
86. Catharine ; m. to Martin Allen.
Children oj John T. Ten Eyck (31) and .
87. Sarah ; m. to Jerome Lansing ; Galway, N. Y. 88. Conkling ;
m. Elizabeth De Voe, of Owasco. 89. John. 90. Jane ; drowned.
91. Martha. 92. Martha. 93. Matthew La Rue.
Children 0/ Rev. R. W, Hill and Elizabeth A. Ten Eyck (32).
94. Matthew La Rue Perrine ; clergyman ; married. 95. Amelia.
Children of Thoinas L. Thompson (36) and Helen Coolidgc.
96. William Lorraine; d. in California. 97. Frances ("Frank");
m. to Alonzo Handley. 98. Sarah ; m. to George Massey, of Water-
town, N. Y. 99. Mary ; m. to Fasten. 100. John ; m. Julia
Boyce ; no child ; N. Y.
Children of Dr. Adrian K. Hoffman and Jane A. Thompson (37).
101. Cornelia ; b. 1825 ; d. Jan., 1866, at Sing Sing; m. 1865 to
Alfred Buckhout. 102. John Thompson ; '' Governor; " b. Sing Sing, Jan.
10, 182S ; d. Wiesbaden, Ger., Mch. 24, 188S ; gr. Union College, 1846 ;
lawyer, New York city ; elected Recorder in i8fto and 1S63, and Mayor,
j 2 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. [April,
1865 and 1867 ; Governor, 1868-70, 1870-72 ; m. Jan., 1854, Ella
Starkweather, who survived him. 103. Mary E. : b. 1830 ; m. 1848 to
Col. Chas. Oliver Joline. 104. Emma Kissam ; b. 1832 ; m. j86i to Rev.
Minot M. Wells. 105. Katharine; b. 1838 ; m. 1st, 1864, to Charles
C. Hvatt ; m. 2d, 1869 or '70, to Gen. Wtn. II. Morris.
Children of Rev. James Adams and Frances M. Thompson (38).
106. James Lorraine; b. July 12, 1 S4 4 ; physician, N. Y. ; m. Mrs.
Mary Bell. 107. Lyell Thompson ; b. Dec. 26, 1837 ; Consul at Horgen,
former y at Malta ; was with Farragut at the taking of Mobile. 108. La
Rue Perrine ; b. May 3, ; d. Jan 11, 1868 ; Lieut. Com. in the
Navy, with Farragut.
Children of David Mead and Eliza Thompson (39).
109. Lyell T. ; b. May 31, 1829 ; m. May 10, 1855, Margaret
Freeman ; St. Paul, Minn. no. Julia A.; b. Oct. 2, 1831, Brooklyn ;
m. Sept. 24, 1849, EaR'e, Wis., to David G. J. Miover. 1 11. Emma J. :
b. Aug. 26, 1S36 ; m. June 1, 1854, to James Ranous ; she died Jan. 2,
1882, at St. Howard, Wis., of small-pox, leaving husband and children.
112. Wm. L. ; b. May-q, 1839 ; m. 1st, June 10, 1868, Milwaukee, Ida
Bentley; m. 2d, Oct. 31, 1878, Menominee, Nellie Wilson. 113.
Frances A.; b. Jan. 22, 1842 ; m. Apl. 20, 1861, to Henry W. Walter-
mire. 114. Mary E. ; b. Dec. 17, 1843 ; m. Aug. 23, 1863, to Daniel
Vandenburg. 115. " Pryne " [Perrine ?] Thompson; b. Aug. 31, 1845.
116. Caroline Matilda; b. Feb. 5, 1847 ; m. June 14, 1870, Ft. At-
kinson, to Henry Espersen, a Dane, 5 years Surveyor Gen. of Dakota ;
La Crosse, Wis.
Child of Rev. Matthew L. R. P. Thompson (40) and Mary Nor hi 11.
117. Charles Norton.
Children of George S. Kershaw and Susan Van Nest (42).
118. P. Ferdinand; b. May 15, 1838; served in the Union Army ;
lives in Mo.; five children. 119. Dennis S.; b. July 29, d. Aug. 28,
1842. 120. Sarah Elizabeth ; b. Apl. 18, 1844; d. Jan. 28, 1845.
121. Caroline Eugenia ; b. May 17,1846; Treas. Dept., Wash. 122.
Sarah Elizabeth ; b. Mch. 7, 1848; Illinois. 123. Teunis Rapelyea ;
b. Feb. 26, 1851 ; lawyer at Seattle, Wash.
Children of John T. Van Ness (46) and Ca/h. L. Thompson (27).
124. Archibald La Rue ; b. Jan. 5, 1840 ; m. Feb. 12, 1868, Ella
V. Gifford ; lawyer at Keysville, Va. 125. Christina ; b. july 12, 184 1 ;
m. 1st, Dec. 19, i860, to Charles Sherwood, of Seneca, N. Y., d. Oct. 18,
1878 ; m. 2d, Feb. 9, 1888, to George Bentley, a farmer of Steuben
Co. 126. Edward Barker; b. Mch. 16, 1845; d. aged 7. 127.
Elizabeth; b. Sept. 14, 1849; d. aged 4- 128. Elizabeth; b. Nov.
19, 1852 ; m. Nov. 8, 1879, to Jasper Wilhelm, a farmer of Living-
ston Co., N. V. 129. Caroline B.;b. May 20, 1S55 ; m. Jan. 5, 1882,
to Robert Wallace, a farmer near Dansville, Liv. Co. N. V.
1 89 1.] Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. J 3
Children of John W.- Van Nest and Hannah M. Van Nest (47).
130. George ; b. Dec. 6, 1S42. 131. Elizabeth Anne ; b. Sept.
8, 1846 ; d. Dec. 19, 1851. 132. Peter La Rue; b. May, 1849. 133.
Maria Josephine; b. May io, 1851.
Children of Henry Breen and Jane Van Nest (48).
134. Peter Van Nfst ; b. Aug. 1, 1841. 135. James Henry ; b.
Sept. 3, 1844. 136. Maria Van Nest ; b. Jan. 14, 1S47. 137. Ellen;
b. May 5. 1849. 138. Susan E.; b. Nov. 14, 1852.
Child of Hiram Whitlock and Jane L. Thompson (49)-
139. Isaac Thompson.
Children of John Thompson (50) and Mary Capron.
140. Mary Celestia ; b. 1837; d. 1870; unmarried. 141. Jane
Anna; b. 1839. 142. Sarah Antoinette; b. 1842. 143. Sarah An-
toinette; b. 1845 ; m. to Theo. Bradford, of Broadalbin. 144. Fkan-
celia ("Frank") ; b. 1848 ; m. to Geo. Brown. 145. Edward W. ; b.
1851 ; m. Ella Andrews, of N. Britain. 146. Rosalinda ; b. 1853; m.
to Charles Green.
Child of Lorain Sunderlin and Margaret A. Thompson (52).
147. Ellura Wilhelmina ("Ella") ; b. July 28, 1844 ; rn. June
9, 1867, to Henry Churchill, b. June 15, 1844, r>f the Herkimer Paper
Co.
Child of Samuel Gilchrist and Margaret A. Thompson (52).
14S. William Lorain ; b. Sept. 20, 1851 ; d. Feb. 12, 1852.
Children of Peter Thompson (53) and Amanda M. Holdridge.
149. Julia Theresa ; b. Dec. 26, 1837 ; m. Apl. 2, 1856, to Pitt
Hoard ; lives at Ceredo, W. Va. 150. George Edward ; b. July 24,
1839 : d. June 1, 1864 ; 2d Mass. Cav. ; Lieut. 86th N. Y. Inf. ; d. from
the effects of exposure. 151. John H. ; b. Mch. 19, 1842 ; d. Nov. 20,
1864 ; Lieut, of Co. G, 14th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, used by Grant as
infantry after the struggle in the Wilderness ; was captured at Petersburgh,
and died in prison, at Charleston, S. C.
Child of Samuel B. Thompson (55) and Harriet B. North.
152. Harriet Adaline ; b. Mch., 1848 ; m. to Harmon E. Van
Buren, of Mayfield, N. Y.
Children of Samuel B. Thompson (55) and Lucy M. Norris.
153. Helen.; b. Oct. 1851 ; d. 18S8 ; m. to Egbert S. Lane. 154.
John Perrine ; b. 1855 ; m. Fannie Briggs. 155. Lucy. 156. Charles;
b. 1865
j a Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. [April,
Children of James M. Quintan and Anne E. Thompson (58).
157. Mary Elizabeth ; b. Oct. 16, 185 1. 158. Anna C. Thompson ;
b. June 21, 1854 ; d. Sept. 12, 1855, at Newark, N. J. 159. Margaret
Gilchrist; b. Mch. 29, 1857. 160. James Thompson; b. Aug. 15,
1S59; d. July 29, 1861. 161. James La Rue; b. Nov. 26, 1861. 162.
Helen Ricord ; b. Feb. 26, 1864.
Child of Matthew L. R. P. Thompson (59) and Martha C. Hayt.
163. Martha Hayt; b. Sept. 19, 1853 ; m. Dec. 19, 1878, to-
Andrew James Robertson, of Elmira, N. Y.
Children of Matthew L. R. P. Thompson (59) and Harriet Beach.
164. Hattie Beach ; b. July 19, 1862 ; d. May 8, 1863. 165.
George La Rue ; b. June 21, 1864 ; m. Jan. 3, 1889, Rosa Field,
dau. of Henry Field, of Oxford, N. C. 166. Alma Wilhelmina ; b.
and d. June 27, 1874.
Children of Stephen Fuller and Helen C. Thompson (60).
167. Mary Cleora ; b. Oct. 14, 1853 ; d. July 20, 1858. 168.
Frank Grahame ; b. Oct. 7, 1857 ; m. Sept. 7, 1887, Clara Morrison,
of Broadalbin. 169. Emma Eliza; b. Dec. 12, i860; m. Aug. 2, 1880,
to Daniel C. Chase, ex-Senator of N. J., Mayor of South Amboy.
Child of Rev. Archibald Thompson (63) and Elizabeth Arnold.
170. Luella.
Children of Isaac H. Palmer and Anne Thompson (64).
171. Anne Elizabeth ; b. Dec. 3, 1837 ; in. July 1, 1856, to John
J. Sleightam, b. Dec. 6, 1835. 172. Sarah Jane ; b. Nov. 1, 1839 ; m.
Sept. 5, 1 86 1, to Edward Andrews, b. Aug. 28, 1836. 173. Mary
Amelia ; b. Feb. 26, 1842. 174. Julia; b. Feb. 17, 1844 ; m. Oct.
26, 1875, to Addison Eaton. 175. Isaac Henry ; b. Nov. 7, 1845 ; d.
Nov. 14, i860. 176. Helen; b. Sept. 22, 1847. I77- Edward; b.
Mch. 30, 1850 ; d. Jan. 28, 1873. 178. Clorine ; b. Feb. 21, 1852 ; m.
May 4, 1875, to Charles P. Clemans. 179. Harriet Emma ; b. May 31,
1854. 180. Herbert; b. Dec. 29, 1857.
Children of Orson Cook and fane Thompson (65).
181. Lucy; b. Mch. 12, 1843 : m- t0 Win. Pye. 1S2. Helen ; b.
Oct. 8, 1845. l&3- Edwin; b. Mch. 23, 1848; married; 2 children.
184. Euphrasia A. ; b. Oct. 9. 1850 ; m. to Gershom Foster ; no child.
185. La Rue P.; b. July 22, 1853 ; married ; 2 children. 186. Flor-
ence ; b. Oct. 1, 1856 ; m. to Caleb Pye ; 4 children. 187. Walter
E. ; b. Dec. 29, 1859 ; m. Josephine Tooker ; 1 child.
( To be continued.)
189 1.] Weddings at St. Mary, Whifechapel, London.
WEDDINGS AT ST. MARY, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON,
FROM A.I). i6t6 TO 1625.
/:>
Communicated by John V. L. Pruyn.
(Continued from Vol. XXII., p. 56, of The Record.)
17, John Wolrner et Joane Stymson.
23, William Bonefant et Agnes Stebard.
23, John Berd et Agnes Stamack.
30, Christopher Bromley et Alice Russell.
December 1617.
4, Robert House et Anne Chapman.
7, Henry Whitred et Alice Parker.
22, Tho : Payne et Jone Lemon.
22, Tho : Amis et Wynifried Pye.
23, Tho : Walford et Alice Spencer.
26, George Gale et Mary Dauis.
30, Peeter van de Brookes et Eliza : Clarke.
30, Rich : Wright et Jone Sherley.
31, William Martine et Jane Fayrecloth.
January 1617.
1, George Dauis et Anne Hoult.
7, William Jackson et Susanna Poole.
22. Tho : Rooke et Alice Horth.
ffebruary 16 17.
1, Christopher Cottesford et Ellen Jones.
2, Rich : Stannidge et Eliza : Parker.
3, Rich : Stacy et Amy Plowright.
8, John Leacock et Elizabeth Maybanke.
9, Andrew Thorne et Joane Lyllam.
10, Tho : Arnold et Jone Remnant.
12, John Ancell et Hanna Skingle.
15, Tho: Dauvson et Jone Barker.
15, Robert Jackson et Cicyly Stonner.
17, James Johnson et Katherine Young.
19, Stephen Hopkins et Eliza : ffisher.
March 1617.
None.
March 16 18.
27, Rich : Greene et Mary Symons.
31, Robert Coppin et Ellinor Bogg.
April 161 S.
6, Arthur Greene & Issabell Nichols.
7, George Cory et Mary Roe.
7, Godfery Burton et Eliza : Curtuous.
9, Anthony Creede et Ann Vbley.
13, James Lintron et Mary Alloway.
23, Robert Barton et Anne Havnes.
May 1 61 8.
7, Nicho'as Glisson et Marv Harding.
76 Weddings at St. Maty, WhitechapeL London. [April,
14, Tho : Warren et Joane Stubbs.
17, George Spicer et Jane Neave,
17, William Wheatall et Amy Lane.
17, John Catlingson et Eliza : Morgan.
17, Giles Perill et Barbery Byrchett.
25, Chistopher Samon et Eliza : Lightfoote.
25, John Norbery et Jone Marret.
27, John Silke et Margaret Harvy.
31, Tho : Loveday et Mary Hawkyns.
June 1 6 1 8.
2, Theodore Bradley et Mary Cornewall.
16, John Grastocke et Mary Anderson.
17, John Eldred et Isabell Pitt.
18, Edward Shakespeare et Vrsula Cobbet.
18, John Clerke et Luce Pepper.
21, William Joplyn et Awfrey Wood.
24, Leonard Bell et Katherine Holmes.
24, Isaack Rooke et Ann Martine.
25, Tho : Hawkins et Margaret Long.
28, William Stonnerd et Erne Shonke.
28, Rich : Steaken et Katherine ffowler.
29, Tho : Allen et Jone Tandy.
July 1 61 8.
2, Henry Mor et Eliza: Hammond.
2, John Gaunt et Ann Kendall.
6, John Lee et Alice Deptford.
12, Robert Dix et Eliza : Cheatley.
12, Edward Lankford et Rebecca Garble.
13, Tho : Schooler et Hanna Nedds.
19, John Rhodes et Margaret Blankasopp.
22, Morris Roberts et Susanna Stirrupp.
26, Zachary Harley et Jone Witney.
August 1 6 18.
6, John Watersall et Margaret Morgan.
9, Rich : Tapley et Ann Boxford.
12, William Young et Wynifried Ryley.
23, Edward Owen et Eliza: Sandon.
27, Captaine Kirke et Jane B shfelde.
29, Robert Bryant et Mary Robinson.
30, Rich : Cambridge et Alice Walton.
31, Edward Procter et Judith Wells.
September 1618.
15, Isaack Butler et Mary Hayes.
20, William Reig[n]olds et Jone Napton.
24, Vmphrey Dobson et Eliza : Weekes.
27, Augustine fford et Eliza : Wayght.
28, Allexander Pursell et Ellen Street.
28, Emanuell Elliott et Joyce Cozens.
October 16 18.
1, William Lemon et Margaret Dallahood.
8, Pollidore Prichard et Sarah Rew.
8, Tho : Gumming et Ann Riches.
i89i.]
The Crossman Family.
77
8, Tho : Cummings et Ann Hixon.
8, John Mallerd et Garthred Cox.
22, Tho : Hodgets et Mary Kidyer.
22, Rich : Midleinore et Eliza : Burrowes.
25, Ambrose Packer et Jone Shorter.
25, Rich : Newcome et Dorothy Dauis.
27, Robert Warberton et Eliza : Jones.
November 16 18.
[Left blank. |
(MS. Notes — " Marriages 1619-1622 [read
1621, inclusive] deficient.")
August 1621.
17, John Higgens and Mary Beamond.
20, Paul Marshe and Alice Wright.
21, Robert Seamarke and Anne Cole.
22, Michaell Gilden and Elizab : Chapman.
27, Arnold Gelly and Elizabeth Reeve.
September 162 1.
x, Edward Thornton and Agnes Sapcoate.
2, Henry Page and Rose Ingle.
10, Humfrey Wood and Mildred Jones.
11, Richard Lord and Alice Palhatchet.
17, Clement Tompson and Joane Bull.
18, Garret Magannis and Joane Barnes.
21, George Peck and Anne Marham.
23, Tho : Sellars and Sarah Condrae.
23, Tho : Sequence and Barbery Vessye.
24, John Netherland and Mary Joyner.
24, Richard Crome and Jane Stevens.
27, Richard Dugglas and Alice Matlocke.
30, John Offley and Elizabeth Harrisson.
( To be continued?)
Nov., 1 61 8, to July,
THE CROSSMAN FAMILY.
By J. J. Latting and W. N. Howard.
1. John Crossman came to New England and settled at Taunton,
Massachusetts, in 1639. We have been unable to find any evidence of
the time or place of his birth, or of his parentage and ancestry. There
was a family of this name residing at Crosse, in Cornwall, England, whose
pedigree is given in the visitation of Cornwall, made in P620, tracing their
descent from John Croseman, gent., Temp. 24 Henry VII., An° 1509,
who bore arms, Sable a chevron or between three goats' heads erased
argent. There was also a family of Crossman, residing in Somersetshire,
which bore Arms, Argent a cross ermine between four escallops sable.
Crest, A demi-lion ermine holding an escallop sable.
78
The Cross man Family.
April,
In the year 1643 a census was taken of the males resident in Taunton,
between 16 and 60, liable to military duty. The total number was 54.
The list is printed in Baylies' History of Plymouth, Vol. 2, p. 267. As
the name of John Crossman does not appear among them, the inference is
that at that time, if he were living, he was upwards of 60 years of age. We
have not ascertained the name of his wife, nor the date of decease of either
of them. In the Plymouth records he is referred to as being deceased
prior to 1675, and as having left issue one son.
2. Robert Crossman (Senior). He is supposed to have been born in
England. He resided at Taunton. He married about 1652-53, Sarah,
dau. of Joseph and Mellicent Kingsbury, of Dedham, Mass. From the
Taunton Town Record?, it appears they had the following children :
3. i. John, b. March 16, 1654.
Mary, b. July 16, 1655 ; mar. Aug. 24, 1673, John Gould
of Taunton.
Robert, b. Aug. 3, 1657; mar. July 21, 1679, Hannah
Brooks, dau. of Gilbert Brooks of Rehoboth.
Joseph, b. Apr. 25, 1659; mar. Nov. 24, 1685, Sarah Ai-
den.
Nathaniel, b. Aug. 7, 1660, killed by the Indians at Wren-
tham, March 8, 1676.
Eleazar, b. March 16, 1663-64 ; d. Oct. 26, 1667.
Elizabeth, b. May 2, 1665 ; mar. Nathan Heyward ; d.
Dec. 26, 1739, aged 75 years.
Samuel, b. July 25, 1667; mar. (1) Dec. 19, 1689, Elizabeth
Bell; (2) Dec. 26, 1696, Mary Sawyer.
Mercv, b. Mar. 20, 1669 ; married John Thrasher, Jan. 26,
1687.
Thomas, b. Oct. 6, 1671 ; a soldier in Capt. Samuel Gallops'
Co. on the expedition to Canada in 1690.
Susanna, b. Feb. 14, 1672-73.
3. John Crossman, son of Robert2 and Sarah (Kingsbury) Crossman,
b. Mar. 16, 1654 ; admitted freeman at Taunton, June 5, 1684 ; mar. Jan.
7, 1689-90, Joanna Thayer, dau. of Nathaniel Thayer, of Taunton. He
died at Taunton in 1727, and left a will dated May 18, 1727, whereby
he makes provision for his wife, and devises his real estate to his four sons,
John. Jonathan, Benjamin, and Henry Crossman. He makes bequests
to his daughter Abigail White, to the children of his deceased daughter
Sarah Babbit, to his daughter Johanna Rogers, to his daughter Mercy
Lincoln, and his daughter Deborah Crossman. Appoints his wife and
his son John, executors. Issue :
13
VI.
vii.
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
i. Abigail, b. Oct. 7, 1690.
ii. Sarah, b. Aug. 27, 1692.
iii. Joanna, b. Mar. 29, 1695.
iv. Mercy, b. Oct. 6, 1697.
v. Deborah, b. Feb. 11, 1702.
vi. John, b. May 27, 1703.
vii. Jonathan, b. Jan. 27, 1705.
viii. Benjamin, b. |an. 8, 1708.
ix. Henry, b. May 6, 1712.
5. Robert Crossman (Junior), son of Robert2 and Sarah (Kingsbury)
189 i.J The Crossman Family. 70
Crossman, b. Aug. 3, 1657 ; mar. July 21, 1679, Hannah Brooks, dau.
of Gilbert Brooks of Rehoboth. Issue :
23. i. Nathaniel, b. March 10, 1680; mar. Oct. 21, 1703, Sarah
Marrick.
24. ii. Hannah, b. Feb. 11, 1681 ; mar. July 16, 1701, Israel
Packer.
25. iii. A son, still-born, Oct. 21, 1683.
26. iv. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 20, 1684 ; mar. Dec. 28, 1709, John
White, Jr.
27. v. Robert, b. Aug. 27, 1686 ; died Apr. 11, 1687.
28. vi. Seth, b. Oct. 1688.
29. vii. Mehitabel, b. June 1, 1694 ; d. Feb. 25, 1695.
30. viii. Another son, still-born, June 4, 1697.
31. ix. Bethia, b. Aug. 1, 1700; d. Oct. 6, 1794.
10. Samuel Crossman, son of Robert2 and Sarah (Kingsbury) Cross-
man, b. July 25, 1667 ; mar. (1) Dec. 19, 1689, Elizabeth Bell ; (2)
Dec. 26, 1696, Mary Sawyer. Issue :
By ist Wife.
32. i. Elizabeth, b. 31 Oct., 1691.
^T). ii. Thomas, b. 13 Aug., 1694.
By 2D Wife.
34. iii. Joseph and Samuel (twins), b. 23 Aug., 1697.
35. iv. Robert, b. 29 April, 1699.
36. v. Barnabas, b. 12 Mar., 1701.
27- vi. Gabriel, b. 6. Nov., 1702.
38. vii. Sarah, b. 15 May, 1704.
39. viii. Phinehas, b. 31 July, 1707.
40. ix. Theophilus, b. 18 Mar., 1709.
21. Benjamin Crossman, son of John3 and Joanna (Thayer) Cross-
man, b. Jan. 8, 1708; mar. Aug. 11, 1737, Bethia Haskins, dau. of
. . . Haskins, of Taunton. He died May 24, 1792. His wife died
Aug. 26, 1786. Issue :
41. i. Tamithy, mar. George Dean.
42. ii. Bethia.
43. iii. Prudence, mar. Jabish Rounds.
44. iv. Priscilla, mar. Amos Cole.
45. v. Benjamin, mar. Tamerson Austin.
46. vi. Deborah, mar. Richard Dean.
47. vii. Hannah, mar. Lewis Briggs.
-48. viii. Abner, b. at Taunton, Mar. 18, 1746 ; mar. at Queen's
Village (Lloyd's Neck), L. I., April 11, 1776, Betsey Bar-
ker. Died Dec. 25, 1812 ; buried on Lloyd's Neck.
49. ix. Simeon, b. June 14, 1 74 1 , at Taunton.
50. x. Asa, mar. Aaron Cole.
51. xi. Asahel, mar. Olive Bliss.
52. xii. Sylvia, mar. Enoch Hunt.
go The Crossman Family. [April,
49. Simeon Crossman, son of Benjamin21 and Bethia (Haskins) Cross-
man, b. June 14, 174 1 ; mar. at Queens Village (Lloyd's Neck) Feb. 6,
1775, Sarah Smith, dau. of Samuel Smith of Humington, L. I. (b. Mar.
22, 1750). Simeon Crossman died at Half-way-Hollow Hills, Suffolk
Co., L. I., Nov. 1, 1830 ; interred in the family burial ground at that
place. Issue :
53. i. Simeon, b. Jan. 25, 1775.
ii. Asahe', b. June 1, 1776 ; mar. Sabrey Gregory,
iii. Gilbert, b. Oct. 3, 1777.
iv. David, b. Jan. 12, 1780.
v. Polly, b. Oct. 3, 1 78 1 ; mar. Jacob Cobb ; d. April — , 1844.
vi. Priscilla, b. Jan. 16, 1785 ; mar. Isaac Weeks,
vii. Sally, b. Sept. 16, 1786 ; mar. Nathaniel Read,
viii. Ebenezer, b. July 12, 1788.
ix. Clarissa, b. June 28, 1791 ; mar. Jonathan Howard of West
Neck, Nov. 8, 1810 ; d. March 6, 1872.
x. Alanson, b. April 14, 1794.
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
53
Simeon Crossman, Jr., son of Simeon49 and Sarah (Smith) Cross-
man, b. at Huntington, Suffolk Co., L. I., January 25, 1775 ; served as.
a substitute for Elbert Sammis in the War of 1812. After his discharge
he embarked on board a vessel for New York. On his way home the
vessel was becalmed off Sand's Point, L. I., and he landed and started to
walk to Huntington. To avoid a walk of several miles, he attempted to
swim the inlet at the head of Hempstead Harbor, when he was taken with
the cramps and was drowned.
55. Gilbert Crossman, son of Simeon49 and Sarah (Smith) Crossman,
b. Oct. 3, 1777 ; mar. (1) Nov. 18, 1798, Betsey Finch, dau. of . . .
Finch of Huntington, L. I. (b. May 15, 1770; d.
April 9, 1 8 19). He mar. Sep. 24, 1822, Mary (Frost) Valentine, widow
of George Valentine and dau. of Stephen and Sarah (Cock) Frost of
Matinecock, L. I., then in her 38th year. He was then 45. She died at
West Neck, Sep. 27, 1839. Gilbert Crossman died at West Neck, Nov. 24,
1856. Issue, all by 1st wife :
63. i. Alfred Burrell, b. Aug. 27, 1799 '■> mar- Marv R. Rushmore
in 1823 ; d. Feb'y 3, 1859.
64. ii. Betsey Amelia, b. Aug. 3, 1801 ; mar. Charles H. Davis ; d.
Dec. 29, 1825.
65. iii. Sarah, b. Nov. 18, 1803 ; d. unmar. Dec. 16, 1882.
66. iv. Amanda, b. Jan. 12, 1806 ; m. Brewster Conklin.
- 67. v. Gilbert, b. June 16, 1808 ; mar. Jan. 21, 1S34, Mary Gould ;
d. Sep. 8, 1873.
68. vi. Susan, b. May 19, 1810; mar. Walter Brush; d. Feb. 27,
1876.
67. Gilbert Crossman, son of Gilbert55 and Betsey (Finch) Crossman,
b. June 16, 1808 ; mar. Mary Gould, dau. of David and Mary (Rusco)
Gould, Jan. 21, 1834 (b. Nov. 7, 1810; d. Dec. 3, 1878). He died Sep.
8, 1873. Issue :
69. i. Wilmot Gould, b. Aug. 22, 1847.
70. ii. El wood, b. Oct. 10, 1849 ; mar- Mary McKay.
71. iii. Anna, b. Sep. 3, 1851 ; mar. Charles H. Peck.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in A'tw York. gi
RECORDS OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH IN THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.— Baptisms.
(Continued from Vol. XXII., p. 14, of The Record.)
A" I733. OUDERS. KINDER!
Jan: 17. Gerard Beekman, David.
Catharina Pro-
voost.
21. Fracis Warne, Eva Robbert.
Egt.
28. James Livingston, Jacobus.
Maria Kierstede.
[520.J
31. Willem Rome, Antje
Wessels.
Wessel W e s s e 1 s e ,
Rachel Van lm-
biirg.
Febr : 4. Fredrik Philipse,
Joanna Brokhols.
Jacob Van Deiirse,
Helena Van
Deiirse.
7. Daniel Gaiitje, Maria
Bogert.
Hendriciis Cavaljer,
Helena Burger.
Richard Norwood,
Maria Cool.
18. James Fra n k 1 in,
Maria Drinkwater.
23. David Abeel, Maria
Diiyke.
Cornells Van Vegten,
Neeltje Biilsing.
Petriis Kip, Margrita
Blom.
25. Abraham Boke, Re-
becca Peers.
Maert 2. Abraham Van
Deiirse, Antje
Koek.
4. Jan Foiman, Eliza-
beth Wesselze.
Richard Kip, Maria
Ellis.
7. Petriis Loiiw, Rachel
Roseveldt.
6
Willem.
Wessel.
Margarita.
Jacob.
Daniel.
Hendriciis.
Andrew.
Jacobus.
Gerard lis.
Cornelis.
Abraham.
Willem.
Abraham.
Johannes.
Petriis.
Nicolas.
GETUYGEN.
David Provoost, An-
neke Van de Water.
M a r i n u s Egt, Aaltje
Harsse.
Herman Winkler, Geer-
triida Van Kingswil,
z. h. v.
Laiirens Wessels, Su-
sanna Bratt, z. h. v.
Andries Meyer, Geertje
Zantvoort.
Adolf Philipze, Margarita
de Peyster.
Jan Van Aarnem, Aaltje
Van Deiirse.
Willem Bogert, Junior,
Teiintje Pieterse.
Johannes Blank, Cornelia
Piket.
Meljora Liiwes.
Johannes Ten Eyk,
Antje Drinkwater.
Rtitger Blyker, Johanna
Van Briig.
Pieter White, Maria Oyls,
Wed. John Oyls.
Abraham Kip, C a t h a -
lyntje Marchalk.
Isaac Boke, Tanneke
Peers.
Isaac Van Deiirse, Anna
Waldron, z. h. v.
Pieter Mazier, Jannetje
Wessel z, z. h. v.
Petriis Kip, Immetje
Van Dyk.
Jan Roseveldt, Catharina
Roseveldt.
32 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [April,
A° 1733. OUDERS.
n. John Coo, Jannetje
Van Zandt.
Johannes Rome,
Elizabeth Ten
Eyk.
14. Abraham Blank,
Maria Laurensz.
Abraham Van
Aarnem Maria Van
Heyninge.
Johannes Ten Broek,
Annatje Smit.
Dirk Ten Eyk,
Ne e 1 tj e Harden-
ben?.
[521.]
18.
A n d r i e s Meyer,
Geertje Wessels.
Fre deri k Sebring,
Maria Provoost.
David C 1 a r k s o n ,
Anna M a r gri ta
Freman.
Jacob Kip, Engehje
Pels.
21. Johannes Van
* D e u r s e , ' Geertje
Minthorne.
25. Johannes Lesser, Eva
Bender.
Frenk Knecht v.
Van Gelder, Elisa-
beth Dienstmeid,
v, Ver Plank.
Liicas Van Vegten,
Anna Woedert.
Archibald Robber-
son, Elizabeth
Willes.
April 1. Philip French, Anna
Farmar.
Johannes Blank,
Rachel Andriesse.
8. John Galloway, An-
natje Lam.
Hero Ellis, Annatje
de Peyster.
1 5. Frederik B e k k e r ,
Catharina Zenger.
Francis Bore, Aaltje
Turk.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Jenneke. Frederik Feyn, Mar-
garietje Feyn.
Coenraed Samuel Ten Eyk, Anna
Ten Eyk. Ten Eyk.
Caparus. Casparus Blank, Maria
Ten Broek.
Jacob. Jacob Van Deurse, Sarah
Van Aarnem.
Hendrik. Bernardus Smit, Catha-
rina Forman.
Neeltje. Jacob ten Eyk, Neeltje
ten Eyk.
Ide. Jacobus Turk, Maria
Meyer, z. h. v.
Elisabeth. Johannes Van Zant,
Catharina Bensing,
z. h. v.
Mattheus. Mattheus Clarkson, Jo-
hanna Philipsee.
Bregje. Abraham Pels, Bregje
Goetes.
Geertje. Johannes Minthorne
Sarah Minthorne.
Magdalcna. Gysbert Gerritsze, Hes-
ther Sibo.
Willem. Jan Knecht V. Brevoort
Maria D°.
Petriis. Jan Snet, Rachel Wimme.
Isabel. Hermaniis Aalsteyn,
z. v.
Philppiis. Coll. Thomas Farmar,
Anna Billop, z. h. v.
Angnitje. Casparus Blank, Angnitje
Blank.
Maria. Johannes Lam, Christina
Lent.
Daniel. Willem de Peyster, Anna
de Peyster.
Frederik. J. Peter Zenger, Catha-
rina Maulin, z. h. v.
Johannes. Johannes Turk, Antje
Kiiypers, z. h. v.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
A° 1733. OUDERS.
18. Willem Peek, Fe;r_-
metje Doiiwe.
22. Joost Paalding, Sd-
sanna White.
25. Mattheus Clarkzon,
Cornelia de Pey-
ster.
Hermanus Stymetz,
Elsje Heermans.
29. Jan Canon, Jenisia
Sens.
Johannes Webbers,
Annatje Van
Orden.
May 6. C o r n e 1 i s Klopper,
Catharina Gere-
rard.
Joseph de Voe, Sara
Blom.
[522-]
25. Sjoert Olferts, Mar-
grita Van Diiyn.
Johannes Van Wyk,
Jannetje Kortregt.
J or i s Brinkerhof,
Elisabeth Byrank.
Juny 1. Jacob S a in m a n ,
Catelyntje Ben-
sing.
3. Gerrit Cozyn, Mar-
gritje Jansse.
6. Michiel Cornel isse,
Elisabeth de Voe.
Gysbert Gerritsze,
Margrietje Lesjer.
13. Nicolaiis Bayard,
Elisabeth Reyn-
ders..
Jan Goulet, Jannetje
Canon.
Hendriciis Smith,
Titia Rapalje.
Hendrik Bogert, Cor-
nelia de Graiiw.
20. John Le Montes,
Aaltje Van Nor-
den.
July 1. Abraham Boelen,
Elisabeth de Pey-
ster.
KINDERS.
GETUYGEN.
Willem.
Johannes Peek, Cara
Doiiwe.
Joost.
Abraham Paalding, Elisa-
beth Wels.
Mattheris.
Hero Ellis, Catharina
Rutgers.
Gerrit.
Egbert Heerman, Jan-
netje Heyer.
Le Gran.
Joh. Openwael, Sara
Sens, z. h. v.
Jacomyntje.
Aarnoudt Webbers,
Hester Van Orden.
Catharina.
Gerardus D u i k i n g , Jo-
hanna Van Burg, z. h. v.
Abigael.
Jan Pietersse, Annatje
Blom.
Jacobus. Cornelis Klopper, Junior,
Sara Elswort.
Jannetje. Nicolaas Kortregt, Eva
Kortregt.
Johannes. Evert Byrank, Catharina
Hooglandt.
Mattheus. Gil lis Mandeviel, Rachel
Hoppe, z. h. v.
Maria. Abraham Aalsteyn, Mar-
retje Jansse, z. h. v.
Andries. Androw Bissit, Marytje
Bissit.
Willem. Gideon Kersting, Tryntje
Kokkeveer.
Samuel. Samuel Bayard, Mar-
grita Van Cortland, z.
h. v.
Catharina. Cornelis Kortregt, Catha-
rina Canon.
Cornelis. Cornelis Rapalje, An-
natje Antonides, z. h. v.
Dorotea. Arendt Van Hoek, Maria
de Grauw.
Helena. Simon Jausse, Helena
Makvethers.
Anna. Mattheus Klarson, V jv-
nelia de Peyster, z. h. v.
§4 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [April,
[523-]
July 29.
Ausr: 1.
I733. OUDERS.
8. Elbert Haring, Elis-
abeth Bogert.
1 5. Isaac Braesjer, Jan-
netje de Four.
Jan Van Pelt, Hille-
gonda Boek hover).
18. Jan Oothouwt, Catha-
lyntje Van Deurs-
zen.
22. Gerrit Heyer, Antje
Rome.
David Schuyler,
Elisabeth Mar-
schalk.
Jan Jacobze,
Harmptje Koek.
Josiia Stidelj Elisa-
beth Jansse.
Samuel Laurens, An-
natje Van Ttiyl.
Cornells Wynkoop,
Elisabeth Van dr
Spiegel.
25-
29.
12.
Jacob Weckenberg,
Maria Berrie.
Alexander Ogelvie,
Janneke Schriiler.
Johannes de Voor,
Bregje Pels.
Willem E 1 s w o r d ,
M a r y t j e v.
Grumme.
Thimotheus Tarp,
Margritje Heer-
mans.
John Tarp. Apolony
Heermans.
Jacob Lory, Mar-
gr i t j e Van d.
Grist.
Willem Laeton. Mar-
gritje Ketelhuin.
Abr'" P a rse 1 , Jan-
netje V. Geveren.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Margaritje. Jan Bogert, Margaritje
Bogert.
David. Gysbert Uit den Bogaart,
Annatje Van Gelder,
h. v. v., J. B.
Hendricus. Hendricus Van Pelt,
C y t j e Boekenhoven,
h. v. v., Wm Viele.
Hendrik. Wm Roseboom, Sara
Roseboom, h. v. v., Jab
Qiiik.
Walther. Aarnouwt Rome, Elje
v. Water, h. v. v., W"
Heyer.
Hermaniis. Petrus Rutgers, Anneke
Groek.
Johannes. Simon Kregier, Elisabeth
Koek.
Maria. Gerrit Cosyn, Margrietje
Jansse, z. h. v.
Thomas. John Cruger, Margritje
Moone, j. d.
Anna. Patrik Jakson, Anna v.
dr Spiegel, z. h. v.
Elisabeth. Jan Post, Geesje Burger.
Alexander. Gerrit Schuiler, Aagje
Schuyler.
Theophilus. Johannes de Voor, Elisa-
bet Blaiiwvelt, Wed.
Van Cs Pells.
Willem. Willem Elsword, Maritje
Rome, Wed. Van R.
Filpot.
Thomas. Cornel is Tarp, Elsje
Heermans, h. v. Van
Hars Stynmets.
Daniel. Egbert Heermans, Mar-
gritje Heermans, Wed.
Van F o 1 k er t Heer-
mans.
Frederik. Jacob Vander Grist, Cor-
nel Lory, Wed. v. Jan
Lory.
David. Jacob Brad, Margritje
Laton, Wed. v. J. Laton.
Willem. Burger V. Geveren,
Elsjer V. Geveren, j. d.
1 891.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. gc
1733-
OUDERS.
KINDERS.
19.
Edward Man, Maria
Van Deursen.
Edward.
Thomas Windover,
Herculius.
Elisabeth El sword.
24.
Cornells Flamen,
Aaltje Gerbrands.
Aaltje.
K
26. William Nersmith,
Wyntje Paulusse.
Sept : 2. Johs Boukenhoven,
Elisabet V. Gelder.
Willem Gilbert,
Maria Van Zant.
Jacobus de Vie,
Maria Tilje.
Frans Lets, Elisabeth
Laton.
Hendricus Boele,
Jannetje Waldron.
12.
16.
23-
26.
30-
[524.J
Octob: 3.
Thomas de La Mon-
tagne, Rebecca
Bryan.
Abraham Filkens,
Pryntje Tiebout.
Pieter Van Norden,
Antje Willemse.
Jan deWit Pieterson,
Anna Van Home.
Jacob Sheerman,
Neeltje Metker.
Wilhelmus Wertgen,
Anna Christina.
Pieter Kembel, Geer-
truy Bayard.
Abraham Kip, Maria
Van den Berg.
Herbert Harhgen-
bergen, Maria Bel
Paul us.
Philipiis Melsbash,
Catharina K 1 o u -
wer.
Robert.
Cathalyntje.
Wynant.
Jostia.
Jan.
Jacob.
Benjamin.
Catharina.
Johannes.
Gerrit Van
Home.
Thomas.
Anna
Geertriiida.
Richard.
Plubert.
Johannes
Eva 2 lingen
Catharina.
GETUYGEN.
Jan V. Aarnem, Jenneke
Van Aarnem, z. h. v.
Charles Stey, Antje Van
Slyk.
Jacob Mar ids Groen,
Marytje Salisbury, z.
h. v.
Hendrik Paulusse,
Tryntje Van Deursen,
h. v., Van J. Paulusse.
Cathalyntje Wels, Wed :
v. Hulohiin Wels.
Pieter Pera Van Zant,
Margrietje Van Zant,
j. d.
Pieter H i b on , Elisab.
Tilje, Wed. V Timot :
Tilje.
Willem Laton, Margrietje
Ketelhiiin, z. h. v.
Benjamin Waldron,
Cattarina Boele, h. v. v.
Pief Goelet.
Egbert Hereman, An-
natje Montanje, Wed.
v. H. Dyer.
Cornelis Tiebout, Maria
Koster.
Johfs Van Vorst, Elisabeth
Berkelo.
Gerrit Van Home,
Van Home, h.
Archibd Fisser.
Pauliis Hoppe, Anna
Deyer.
Wilhelmiis Altgeldt,
Anna Geertruda Schiit.
Stephen Bayard, Judith
Bayard, Wed. v. R. V.
dam.
Jacob Kip, Elisab1 v. d.
Berg, h. v. Van Js V.
01st.
Mattheus Or, AneefEeg,
Johannes Sorvensteen,
Eva Sorvensteen.
Pieter Corselius, Catha
Hdl. Sappel.
Cath
V. V.
86 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [April,
A* I733. OUDERS. KINDERS.
Johannes Van Orden, Josyntje.
Adriaantje Web-
bers,
10. Wi 11 em Van Duin,
Sibrech Verkerk.
GETUYGEN..
Pieter Van Orden, Aaltje
Webbers, j. d.
13. Godefricus Bennewe,
Pieternelle Mon-
tanje.
Alexander Fenix,
Elisabeth Burger.
21. Laurens Lammerse,
Lea Bras.
Brougon Coeverts,
Annatje Slover.
Nov: 4. Ah as li e r us Tiirk,
Hillegon Kuiper.
Abraham Marshalk,
Maria Cebrink.
18. D° Henricus Boel,
Elsebet Van
Home.
Pieter Bond, Cat-
lyntje Meyer.
25. Johannes Marshalk,
Johanna Turk.
Richard Edsall,
Hillegond de Kay.
Martinus Eygenberg,
Anna Maria
Doom.
Dec : 2. Lowies Teboe, Maria Maria.
Viele.
9. Evert Byvank, Maria Evert.
Canon.
5. A b rah a m Aalstyn, Abraham.
Elisabeth Blom.
12. Roger French, Mar- Roger.
grietje Louw.
23. Willem Carol us, Johannes.
Fronika Cortelius.
25. Jacobus Kip, Catha- Johannes.
rina Kip.
John Lake, Catha- Aaltje.
rina Bensen.
YVilhelmus. Hendrik Classe Kuiper,
Jannetje Verkerk, z.
h. v.
Vincent. Willem Kranny, Mar-
grita Bennewe, z. h. v.
Catharina. Jacob Fenix, Catha Con-
fort.
Elisabeth. Adolf Bras, Margrietje
Kersteng, z. h. v.
Brougon. Richard Warldron, Ju-
dikje Slover, j. d.
Sara. J ohannes Turk, Antje
Kuiper.
Maria. Johs Marshalk, Maria
Marshalk, j. d.
Henriciis. Jan de W i t Pietersen,
geboren den Anneke Van Home, z.
4 Novemb. h. v.
Pieter. George Lamb, Maria
Schilman, h. v. v., J.
Bond.
Sara. Willem Rome, Maria
Marshalk, j. d.
Johannes. Barend Barheidt, Rebecca
Oothoiiwt, z. h. v.
Anna Wilhelmus Altgeldt,
Christina. Anna Maria, z. h. v.
Gabriel Teboe & Maria
Koely, z. h. v.. Aar-
noiiwt Viele & Jan-
netje Viele, j. d.
Jan Canon, Junior,
Elisab : Byvank, h. v.
Van Joris Brinkerhof.
Abraham Aalstyn,
Marytje Jansse, z. h. v.
Cornells Louw, Annatje
Loiiw.
Johs Frans Walter, Mar-
grietje Althuisen.
Johs Van der Heiil, Sara
Kip, z. h. v.
Abraham Lake, Margriet
Lake, h. v. Van Wm
Commons.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Fork. §7
A° 1733. OUDERS. KINDERS.
[525.]
Johs Van Solingen, Marceliis.
A n n a t je Mar-
cel lisse.
30. Vrederyk Blom, Maayke.
Apolonia Vreden-
bilrg.
A" 1734-
Jan : 1. CornelisVan Gelder, Abraham.
Elisabeth Mesier.
Jacobus Wessels, Hercules.
Catharina Pieterse.
Paul us Hoppe, Maria Claasje.
Qiiakkenbosch.
5. Jacob Jacobze, Maria Jacob.
Swaan.
William Broiiwn, Willem.
Hanna Burris. geboren den 1 1
Decemb : 1733
9. Daniel Lynsze, Joost.
Cathalyntje Eght.
16. Jacobus Montanje, Abraham.
Maria Pel.
20. Barend Bosch, Aagje Evert.
Bruyn.
Hermanus Rutgers, Antony.
Elisabeth Bensen.
Jacobus Pieter Sny- Willem.
der, Elisabeth Lot.
23. Allard Antony, Su- Abraham,
sanna Laurier.
Johannes Lam, Rachel.
Christina Lent.
27. Tennis du Four, Hendriciis.
Sara Oblinus.
30. Johannes Pieterse, Johannes.
Catharina Haver.
Hendrik Ten Broek, Hendrik.
Marytje Blank.
Febr : 3. Christoffer Stynmets, Christoffer.
Aagje Lammersz.
GETUYGEN.
Coenraad Ten Eyk, Sara
Smith, z. h. vrotiw.
Jacob Blom, Annatje
Montanje, Wed : v.
Js Vredenbtirg.
Pieter Mesier, Marytjeran,
h. v. Van Aswers Els-
worth.
Hercules W i n d o v e r ,
Maria Pieterse, z. h. v.
Willem Hoppe, Elisabeth
Van Orden, z. h. v.
Jacob Swaan, Annatje
Swaan, z. h. v.
Godefricus B e n n o w e ,
Jannetje Jansse, h. v.
v., Nicolas Thomas.
Joost Lynse, Agnietje
Lynsze, h. v. v. ,
Thomas Vajer.
Abraham Montanje,
Hillegond Ktiiper, fa.
v. v., Asiierus Turk.
Vrederik Bruyn, Marytje
Bniyn, Wed. v. Johs
Bussing.
Antony Rutgers, Cornelia
Roos, z. h. v.
Willem Carolius, Anna
Maria Erensteyn, h. v.
v., J. Altgelt.
Jan Gasherie. Marretje
Band, Wed. van
Barend Cornelisse.
Roelof Van Mepel, Jan-
netje Lam, z. h. v.
Hendrik Oblinus, Mar-
retje Oblinus, h. v.
Van Mich Terneur.
Christiaan Stiiiver, Aagje
G o e 1 e t Wed : van
Johannes Burger.
Johs. ten Broek, Rachel
Andriesse, h.v. v., Johs
Blank.
Laurens Lammersz, Lea
Bras, z. h. vrotiw.
gg Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [April,
A" 1734-
OUDERS.
KINDERS.
6.
Gerardiis Driiking,
Johanna Van
Brug.
Margareta.
Nicolas Gouverneur,
Barend.
Geertry Reinders.
10.
Johannes Bakkes,
Elisabeth Wys.
Johannes.
Abel Hardenbroek,
Abel.
Annetje Elsworth.
*3-
Adam Koning, An-
natje Dey.
Jacob.
Jacobus Qiiik, Sara
Sara.
Roseboom.
John Basset, Elisa-
Margrietje.
beth Visscher.
GETUYGEN.
Wilhelmus Beekman,
Elisabeth Van Brug,
j.d.
David Provoost, Elsebeth
Gouverneur.
Johan Jonas, Maria
Geert, j. d.
Jacobus Dasy, Maria
Elsworth, z. h. v.
Jacob Koning, Anneke
Dey, j. d.
Cornelis Quik, Elisabeth
Roseboom, j. d.
David Abeel, Eva Vis-
scher, h. v. v., Antony.
17. Robbert Livingston,
Junior, Maria
Tang.
24. Johan Wolfgank-
Algeer, Anna Mar-
greta Hovelring.
Maart 3. Johannes Van Syse,
Engeltje Appel.
G e r r i t Nieuwkerk,
Catharina Kiiyper.
Jacob Ryke, Catha-
rina Pommery.
6. Isaac Smith, Marytje
Percel.
10. Pieter Van Deurssen,
Maria Eldring.
1 7. Johannes Byvank,
Sara Haviland.
20. Walter De Graiiw,
Maria De Lamaar.
Johannes Vreden-
burg, Annatje
Blom.
24. Willem Roome, Sara
Turk.
Mattheus Van Detirs-
V sen Margrietje
Poiilusse.
27. Hendrik Van de
Water, Anna Skil-
man.
Philip. Robert Livingston, Mar-
greta Veets, Wede.
Urbaniis. Urban us Spaan, Anna
Maria Hoveling, z. h. v.
Wilhelmus. Johannes Appel, Sara
Wilkes, j. d.
Mattheus. Hendrik Kiiyper, J a n -
netje Verkerk, z. h. v.
Abraham. Thomas Lynch, Mar-
garietje Ryke, z. u. v.
Walter. Arent Van Hoek, Sara
Bos, h. v. v., Gerrit
Heyer.
Abraham. Abraham Van Deurssen,
Liicretia Bogardus, s.
h. v.
Hanna. Pieter Haviland, Belitje
Byvank, j. d.
Johannes. Arent Van Hoek, Marytje
Heyer, syn h. v.
Mavke. Jacob Blom, Apolonia
Vredenbiirgj h. v. v.,
Fredrik Blom.
Annatje. Nicolaas Antony, Marytje
Turk, j. d.
Johannes. Johannes Pouliisse, Junr,
Tryntje Van Deurssen,
s. h. v.
Thomas. Cornelis Klopper, Senior,
Catharina Greveraat, h.
v., Van Cornelis, Klop-
per, Junior.
1 89 1.] New Jerseys Revolutionary Flotilla-Men. gg
NEW JERSEY'S REVOLUTIONARY FLOTILLA-MEN IN NEW
YORK'S WATERS.
By Philip Randall Voorhees, Esq.
'Tis said that Marryat wrote "Japhet in Search of a Father" from the
desire to show that his genius for romance was not confined to tales
pertaining to his chosen profession. He, therefore, began his story by
introducing his hero as a foundling, certified to have been born in wed-
lock, and then, in due time, sending him forth on his adventurous search.
This paper is an outgrowth, not of a search like Japhet's, but of
searches in tracing certain diverging lines of descent from one common
ancestor, who, emigrating from Holland in the year 1660, settled on Long
Island. Therefore, dropping genealogy, my paper, as its title imports,
seeks to recall brave deeds performed by brave men in littoral warfare.
For literary work no aptitude is claimed ; though, by heredity, associa-
tion, and some years of service, great fondness "for, and some familiarity
with, nautical matters have been imbibed. My endeavor, therefore, has
been to herein marshal historical facts, much as a lawyer would mass
evidential facts in a brief, for the final hearing, in an equity cause.
The battle of Bunker Hill had been fought, the Canada campaign
had ended, and the war in all its practical vicissitudes had begun.
January, 1776, had nearly passed, and New York and New Jersey were
anxiously expecting the enemy's descent upon their shores, from the sea,
when " Lord Stirling and some associates, " says Lossing, "went in four
boats and captured the British transport Blue Mountain Valley, lying off
Sandy Hook. " This was " the first small-boat expedition of consequence,"
says the same writer, and he thus describes the affair : " Informed that a
British transport and provision-ship was on the coast, the Committee of
Safety at Elizabethtown ordered four armed boats to attempt its capture.
They came in sight of the vessel about forty miles from Sandy Hook. The
men in the boats were all concealed under hatches except two in each, un-
armed, who managed the oars. The enemy mistook them for fishing vessels,
and allowed them to come alongside. At a preconcerted signal the hatches
were raised, the armed Americans poured upon the deck of the ship, and
in a few minutes she was their prize, hardly a show of resistance having
been made. She was taken in triumph to Elizabethtown Point, where her
cargo was landed." This exploit was performed on the 23d of January,
1776, and for it the actors received the thanks of Congress. Lord Stirling,
a native of New York City, started upon this expedition with his force of
New Jersey soldiers from Elizabeth, but at Amboy he was overtaken by
reinforcements in three boats, under the command of Colonel Elias Dayton,
sent in great haste by the Committee of Safety, in consequence of advices
received at Elizabeth, after Stirling's departure, that an armed ship was
going out of New York to convoy the storeship. The expedition then
became a joint one. Lossing says that it was "under the command of
Elias Dayton and William Alexander. The latter is better known in our
history as Lord Stirling." In Stirling's account of this affair, in his letter
to Congress, under date of January 24, 1776, published in Hatfield's
" History of Elizabeth, New Jersey," he says: "I immediately set out
for Amboy, and there seized a pilot boat, and, with forty men, was just
go New Jersey s Revolutionary Flotilla-Men. [April,
pushing out about two yesterday morning when I was joined by three
other boats from Elizabeth-Town with about forty men each, many of
them gentlemen from Elizabeth Town, who voluntarily came on this
service, under the command of Col. Dayton and Lieut. -Col. Thomas."
By letter dated February 10, 1776, Robert Ogden, Chairman of the Town
Committee of Elizabeth, also made an official report of this capture to
John Hancock, President of Congress. For his part in this affair, Con-
gress, in March, 1776, appointed Stirling a brigadier-general. Colonel
Dayton, in 1783, had the same rank conferred upon him. It would be
foreign to the subject of this paper to name the other and more brilliant
services in many battles of the Revolution of these two officers, each of
whom survived the war ; the one for a few months only, the other for some
years. Stirling died in 1783, before the treaty of peace was consummated,
the actual signing of the same being effected in 1784 ; and Dayton died
in 1807.
In Hatfield's volume, just referred to, is published (I quote) "A
list of the officers and men belonging to the militia of Elizabeth Town,
who entered on board of the different shallops as volunteers in order to
take the ship Blue Mountain Valley, January 22, 1776, under the com-
mand of Elias Dayton, Colonel." Among the names on this list, is that
of Thomas Quigley, whose name will again appear farther on.
The summer of 1776 brought to New York the expected British
troops from Boston, with reinforcements from Halifax, and a British fleet
also. "On the thirtieth August, 1776," says Lossing, "Admiral Howe
sailed up the bay with his fleet and anchored near Governor's Island
within cannon shot of the city." The battle of Long Island had been
fought and lost on the 27th, and Lord Stirling captured and sent a
prisoner on board Admiral Howe's flagship Eagle. Long Island, evac-
uated by the American forces on the night of the 28th, was now at the
mercy of the enemy, who, on the 3d of September, landed his whole
forces on the island, with the exception of about " four thousand men
left upon Staten Island to awe the patriots of New Jersey." During the
night after the battle of Long Island a forty-gun ship had passed the bat-
teries and anchored in the East River, somewhat damaged by shot from
Stuyvesant's Point, the site in later years of the Novelty Iron Works.
" Washington," says Lossing, "sent Major Crane of the artillery to
annoy her. With two guns upon the high bank at Forty-sixth Street, he
cannonaded her until she was obliged to take shelter in the channel east
of Blackwell's Island."
Mention of Colonel Crane, who hailed from Elizabeth, N. J., has
been here made, because he will figure later on as the leader of a board-
ing party, instead of in command of a shore battery. Washington's army
evacuated New York City September 15, 1776. In the " Official Reg-
ister of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, "
compiled by Gen. Wm. S. Stryker, the adjutant-general of the State,
to whom I am much indebted for most courteously assisting me in
obtaining information sought, the names of thirty-six "captains " appear,
with the names of a number of armed vessels commanded by them,
under the head-line, "Naval Service." Among these names appear
those of Adam Huyler, "Captain Privateer Revenge;" William Marren-
er, unassigned ; Thomas Quigley, "Captain Privateer Lively'," Alexan-
der Dickie, John Storey, and John Storer, each unassigned. The names
1 89 1.] New Jerseys Revolutionary Flotilla-Men. gi
of Huyler and Quigley also appear in the list of captains of militia.
Each of these privateersmen, therefore, bore either a naval or military com-
mission, or both, from his State. This marine militia formed the per-
sonnel of a private armed flotilla, consisting of coasting and river vessels,
mostly of fore and aft rig, and whaleboats propelled by oars, making a
very formidable mosquito-fleet.
Huyler appears to have been the most noted commander or division
officer, so to speak, in this fleet, and the accounts of the exploits of him-
self and his men seem more like tales of the imagination than sober reci-
tals of facts. He gave the enemy's navy, in possession of this harbor, no
rest, attacking and capturing armed transports and supply-vessels, and
cutting out store-ships from under the very guns of men-of-war and shore
batteries. Lossing, in referring to Huyler's and Marrener's careers, says,
"On the arrival of the British the following summer (1776), Captain
Adam Huyler and William Marrener of New Brunswick, N. J., annoyed
them so much that an armed force was sent to destroy their boats. New
boats were immediately built, when these bold men commenced a regular
system of hostility. They cruised between Egg Harbor and Staten Island,
and every Tory fisherman was compelled to pay them enormous tribute.
Huyler captured several small British vessels, and often made unwelcome
visits to towns on Long Island. * * * Huyler afterwards, with two
armed. boats, captured a British corvette in Coney Island Bay. They
went softly alongside in the night, boarded her and secured every man
without firing a shot. Placing their prisoners in their boats, they set fire
to the vessel, in which, unknown to Captain Huyler{ were forty thousand
dollars in gold. * * * In some of these exploits Marrener accom-
panied Huyler, and their names became a terror to the Tories. Mar-
rener was a prisoner for some time under Major Moncrief, on Long
Island, and for the unkindness of that officer, Marrener after his exchange
seized him one fine summer's night and took him to New Brunswick."
When I began to trace out Huyler's career as a privateersman, I did not
know that anything like a detailed or connected account of his exploits
had been attempted, either from tradition or contemporaneous sources in
print. But in the course of my searches I became indebted to Dr.
Charles H. Voorhees of New Brunswick, who kindly allowed me the use
of a copy of a paper prepared and read by him before the Historical Club
of New Brunswick, which paper was published in the New Brunswick
Fredonian in its issue of March 29, 1888. From this paper, and some
of the authorities therein cited, supplemented by others herein cited, I
have collected all herein relating to the career and death of Captain
*
Huyle
Adam Huyler, at the age of fifteen years, emigrated about the year 1750
from Holland, and settled in New Brunswick. In 1760, in the old Dutch
Church, now the First Reformed Church, he married Annie Nevius, a de-
scendant of the Schureman family. During the war he kept his fleet of
whaleboats and barges distributed at different places, from New Bruns-
*The following are the authorities cited in Dr. Voorhees' paper:
New Jersey Gazette (1781-S2); Philadelphia Packet and Ledger ; Rivington's
New York Royal Gazette ,• Onderdonk's " Revolutionary Incidents of Long Island His-
torical Collections of New Jersey " (Barber and Howe) ; " Tales and Traditions of New
York ; " " Huyler's Attempt to Capture Lippincott, " in New York Sunday Times, about
August 1851; Hon. Edwin Salter's Letter in New Brunswick Fredonian, June 15, 1863;
Lieut. J. Drake Chandlee's Letter in Newark Simday Call, February 4, 18S6.
Q2 New Jersey s Revolutionary Flotilla-Men. [April,
wick, along Raritan Bay, and as far south as Toms River. His first mate,
or first officer, was Captain William Marrener of New York, a coast trader,
known as a brave man and true patriot. Huyler selected his men with
great care, and only those of experience and skill as watermen, as well as
of known courage and daring, were retained. With muffled oars his
boats were pulled at great speed out of the darkness, and sometimes in
moonlight and daylight, directly alongside of an enemy's ship, whose
men were made prisoners and the ship a prize, before the watch on deck
could give an alarm. The rowlocks of these boats were carefully muffled,
and as they much resembled that useful article of equine equipment, they
were called by the land-people "horseshoes." It was part of the good
work of the patriotic women of New Brunswick to assist, with their
needles and sewing palms, or thimbles, the muffling of these rowlocks
with stuffed canvas. At the time of Huyler's exploits, now to be detailed
(commencing in 1781 and ending 1782), New Jersey had passed through
the crisis of its fate as the seat of war. The campaign beginning in
November, 1776, the battles of Trenton and Princeton had been fought
December 26, 1776, and January 3, 1777, respectively, followed June
20 by the enemy's evacuation of New Brunswick and the State — the
latter to be again invaded from Philadelphia, followed by the momentous
American victory at Monmouth, June 28, 1778. During the enemy's
occupation of the State, and New Brunswick in particular, Huyler either
cruised out of Egg Harbor into New York Bay, via Sandy Hook, or else,
being a captain of militia, he was possibly with the land force, until after
the battle of Monmouth, at least ; after which battle New Jersey, though
free from armed occupation by the British, was frequently raided by forag-
ing parties sent out from New York by Sir Henry Clinton, which, says
Lossing, " ravaged the whole country from the Hudson to the Raritan
and beyond." Having cruised between Egg Harbor and Staten Island
with his lieutenant, Marrener, and captured several British ships, as
before said, though I have found no dates or details of any captures by
him outside of Sandy Hook, Huyler, about April 14, 178 1, captured
in New York Harbor a sloop and ransomed her for five hundred dollars.
This exploit Rivington's Gazelle credited to Huyler and Marrener. But
a few days later Marrener wrote an explanatory letter, published with Riv-
ington's notice of the event, in Onderdonk's " Revolutionary Incidents of
Long Island. " The letter is dated " New Brunswick, Apr. 24, '81," and
is as follows :
"To Mr. Loring* — Sir: In a New York paper it is said I was concerned in
taking a sloop. Such a report is without foundation. I am on parole, which I shall
give the strictest attention to. She was taken by Huyler and Dickie.
Yours, etc.,
Wm. Marrener.
About May 2, 1 78 1, Huyler took a Hessian major in the night from
the house of Michael Bergen, at Gowanus, the enemy's camp being close
by. Then June 18, 1781, surprising the sergeant and guard, he carried
them off from the house of Captain Schenck, at Canarsie, that officer,
probably luckily for himself, being absent. About October 7, 1781,
Hurler, with one gunboat and two whaleboats, within a quarter of a mile
of the guardship at Sandy Hook, attacked five vessels, and after a sharp
* Tory, and British " Commissary of Prisoners."
1 89 1.] New Jerseys Revolutionary Flotilla-Men. n-?
conflict of fifteen minutes carried them by boarding, without the loss of a
man, taking from one of the vessels fifty bushels of wheat and a quantity
of cheese. Part of this cargo belonged to Captain Lippincott, of New
York, who later, as will appear farther on, had a very narrow escape from
capture at the hands of Huyler and his "press gang." About October
15, 1 78 1, Huyler, with one gunboat and two whaleboats, boarded one
sloop and two schooners, which lay under cover of the post at the Sandy
Hook lighthouse. But, being much annoyed by a galling fire from an
armed galley lying near Staten Island, he burned the sloop (which was a
dull sailer), and reached New Brunswick with all his prisoners and one
schooner; the other schooner having grounded, he was compelled to
abandon it. About October 27, 1781, Huyler, with one gunboat, sur-
prised the refugee town near Sandy Hook, and there captured six noted
horse thieves, whom he brought off as prisoners. A few days prior to
November 14, 1781, Huyler, with one gunboat and a small party of
men, captured a ship at the Narrows, with her crew of about fifteen men.
He endeavored to run her up the Raritan River, but she grounded ; and
the enemy, approaching in force, compelled him to destroy her by fire to
prevent recapture. He succeeded, however, in carrying off part of her
cargo of rum and pork, with all of his prisoners. This ship was probably
the Father's Desire, whose cargo was sold at public auction as part of
Huyler's captures. About December 15 (13), 1781, Huyler, with his
whaleboats, captured at the Narrows two refugee sloops, having on
board specie to the amount of six hundred pounds sterling, dry goods,
sugar, and rum, all of which were taken to New Brunswick. The enemy
had been by this time so much annoyed by Huyler's forays, that an
expedition to destroy his boats was fitted out, which arrived at New
Brunswick on the 9th of January, 1782.* The party, consisting of three
hundred refugees and British, landed at New Brunswick, plundered two
houses, and held possession of the town for about an hour, destroying some
of Huyler's whaleboats while in the town. They were gallantly opposed
by the neighboring militia and driven off with some loss. Several of the
Tories were killed, and several carried off wounded. Five Americans were
wounded and six taken prisoners, but none killed.
Huyler soon repaired his losses of boats, but the force of British and
Tories, which on March 24, 1782, attacked and captured the Block-
house at Toms River, with its gallant commander and defender, Captain
Joshua Huddy, subsequently murdered by the "Associated Loyalists"
domiciled in New York, carried off a large barge which, the enemy
claimed, belonged to Huyler's fleet. But the next month, sometime in
April, 1782, Huyler, in an open boat, captured a large cutter lying near
Sandy Hook, almost in readiness for sea, and within hail of the British
frigate Lion of 64 guns. This prize mounted twelve eighteen-pounders.
Huyler made prisoners of her crew of forty men and blew up the ship.
He also captured a sloop, and ransomed her for four hundred dollars.
The New Jersey Gazette states that "on this expedition Huyler had with
him one gunboat and a barge, and that the cutter mounted six eighteen-
pounders and ten nine-pounders." Of the cutting out of this "cutter "
from under the guns of the Lion, man-of-war, one of the prisoners, her
* Accounts of this expedition were published at the time in Rivington's New-
York Royal Gazette, in the New Jersey Gazette, and in the Philadelphia Packet of
January 15 and 16, 1782.
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captain, is said to have told the following story, published in Barber and
Howe in an "Extract of a letter from New Jersey, June 19, 1782." This
extract, after referring to Huyler's capture of this eighteen-gun vessel,
makes her captain say in substance as follows : "Our vessel was at anchor
near Sandy Hook, the Lion about a quarter of a mile distant. I was on
deck with three or four men. We were admiring the beautiful full moon,
when we suddenly heard several pistols discharged in the cabin, and,
turning around, we perceived a number of armed people on deck, who
ordered us to surrender in a moment. We were put below and the
hatches immediately barred over us. The firing, however, had alarmed
the man-of-war, which hailed us to know what was the matter. We were
not in a situation to answer, but Huyler was kind enough to do it for us,
telling the people on board the man-of-war, through his speaking-trumpet,
that ' all was well ; ' after which, unfortunately for us, they made no
further inquiries."
About May 25, 1782, Huyler, with his armed boats, being in the
Shrewsbury River, was attacked by a detachment of troops, which sought to
intercept and capture him in passing through the "gut." Huyler landed
thirteen men and charged the enemy, killing or wounding four men and
making prisoners of a captain and eight men. About July 2, 1782,
Huyler, accompanied by Captain Storey, with two whaleboats, boarded
and captured in New York Bay, at noon, the schooner Skip-jack armed with
six guns and swivels, made prisoners of her crew of nine or ten men, and
then burned the prize in sight of the guardship. About the same time
he also captured three or four trading vessels loaded with calves, sheep,
and stores. About, or shortly before, the date last mentioned, Huyler
determined to capture Captain Richard Lippincott (whose surrender had
been demanded by Washington and refused). Lippincott was a native of
New Jersey, but then one of the "Associated Loyalists " in this city.
Lippincott had headed the party which murdered Captain Joshua Huddy,
and had even pulled on the rope with which he was hanged. A full his-
tory of this crime appears in a published address of General Stryker, enti-
tled "The Capture of the Blockhouse at Toms River, March 4, 1782,"
read by him at the memorial service at Toms River, May 30, 1883.
Huyler, therefore (as told in Barber and Howe and Lossing), with his men
and himself disguised as a man-of-war's press gang, left the Kills of Staten
Island after dark with one boat, and arrived at Whitehall Street about nine
o'clock. Leaving his boat in charge of three men, he went to Lippin-
cott's residence, but, upon inquiry, he learned that Lippincott had gone
to a cock-fight. Failing, therefore, in his object, he returned to his boat
with his " press gang," and, leaving Whitehall, he captured off the Bat-
tery a sloop from the West Indies, laden with rum. Before daylight he
reached Elizabethtown Point, and had landed from her and secured forty
hogsheads of her cargo, when to prevent recaptures he was burned. It
may be recalled here that the refusal to surrender Huddy's murderer
came very near costing the young British officer Captain Asgill his life.
He was condemned to be executed in retaliation, but the strong interces-
sion of friends in England and France, and the close of the war, induced
Congress to order his release.
Huyler's operations, however, were not always without mishaps, and
this brave man's career was now drawing to its close. In Onderdonk's
"Revolutionary Incidents, " heretofore mentioned, an account probably
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from Rivington's Gazette or Gaine's Mercury, under date of July 24,
1782, states in substance that "on Tuesday last Mr. Huyler with three
large twenty-four oared boats made an attack on the galley stationed
at Prince's Bay, south side of Staten Island. Cashman gave him an
eighteen-pounder, which went through the stern of one of the boats, and
obliged Huyler to put ashore, where, after a short combat, he was obliged
to leave one of his boats and make the best of his way home. " John
Althouse with twelve men was on board of a guard-boat in Prince's Bay
when the two whaleboats were descried under the South Amboy shore.
The weather was calm, and a twenty-four-pounder sent a shot through
Hurler's boat. His crew was taken in by the other boat (Dickie's) and
they all made off for New Brunswick with Gen. Jacob F. Jackson, whom
they captured on South Bay." Huyler seems here, even in retreat, to have
made some reprisal.
The New jersey Gazette of September 25, 1782, contained an account
of Huyler's death and funeral, and the supposed cause of his death
— poison — is therein thus explained : It is asserted that Huyler,
"while on shore at South Amboy, after a successful foray, went into a
tavern where poison was surreptitiously administered to him in his food
or drink, through the agency of some Tory enemies in that place. He
reached his home, where he lingered for several weeks, but finally suc-
cumbed to the effects of the drugs."
The following is the notice of his death and funeral :
"Died, September 6, 1782, after a tedious and painful illness, which
he bore with a great deal of fortitude, the brave Captain Adam Huyler of
New Brunswick.
"His many enterprising acts in annoying and distressing the enemy
endeared him to the patriot part of his acquaintance. He left a wife
and two small children to bewail his death. His remains were decently
interred, with a display of the honors of war, in the Dutch burial ground,
attended by a very numerous concourse of his acquaintances."
Rivington's Gazette of September 11, 1782 (quoted by Onderdonk),
says : " Huyler died of a wound in the knee, accidentally given by him-
self some time ago."
Rivington's Gazette and Gaine's Mercury, notorious Tory papers, were
published in this city, the former on Wednesday and Saturday, and the
latter on Monday of each week. But as early as December 19, 1774, the
patriots of Elizabeth, according to Hatfield, " boycotted, " to use a
modern expression, Rivington's paper for its mendacity ; and the war-poet
Philip Freneau puts in Rivington's mouth in Rivington's "Reflections,"
these words, referring to the lenity of the patriots :
" And it must be a truth that admits no denying,
If they spare us for murder, they'll spare us for lying."
As to Gaine's Mercury , Moore's "Diary of the American Revolu-
tion " contains a " new catechism " from Brasher's " Journal," in which
one of the numerous questions is : " Who is the greatest liar on earth ? "
The answer to which is : " Hugh Gaine of New York, printer."
Leaving the adventurous Huyler interred with the honors of war, we
are told in Barber and Howe's volume that his lieutenant, Marrener,
" lived several years after the war, at Harlem, and is remembered as a
facetious old gentleman."
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But the flotilla-men were still active. The New Jersey Gazette of
November 13, 1782, as quoted by Onderdonk, says : "The brave Captain
Storer, commissioned as captain of a private boat of war, under the State,
and who promises fair to be the genuine successor of the late valiant
Captain Huyler, has given a recent instance of his valor and conduct in
capturing one of the enemy's vessels, and in cutting out a vessel lying
under the flagstaff and within half pistol-shot of the battery of fourteen
guns at the watering place, Staten Island." A letter from New Brunswick,
dated in December, 1782, referring to this event, says that the latter vessel
alluded to "was a sloop in the engineer department of H. B. M. service,
and was carried away safely. "
The war for independence now seemed to disclose a propitious ending.
The British campaign in the South had closed. Cornwallis had surren-
dered October 17, 1781, and peace seemed dawning. But the men of
Elizabeth Town having been, under Stirling and Dayton, early in the
fray, now emulating the deeds of the men of New Brunswick under Huy-
ler, and led by brave Crane, made other captures as part of the closing
work of the war. "In June" (1782), says Hatfield, "an expedition was
fitted out from this town, of which an account is given, as follows "
(New York Journal, No. 176): "Intelligence being received at Elizabeth
Town of two whaleboats, fitted for a two months' cruise in the Delaware
Bay, lying at a wharf the north side of Staten Island, a plan was concerted
to surprise and bring them off, which was put in practice last Thursday
night (20th); and the boats, with all their appurtenances, were safely
moored at Elizabeth Town bridge next morning, together with eighteen
prisoners that were on board, six of whom were valuable negroes. The
party, Continentals and volunteers, consisted of upwards of thirty, com-
manded by Major (William) Crane. There was a sentinel in each boat,
who hailed and attempted to fire on the party, but their pieces providen-
tially flashing in the pan, the party, regardless of danger, rushed on them
with such impetuosity that they had not time to prime again, and a few
moments put them in complete possession of their object, without further
alarm." Hatfield further states: "One act more of aggressive hostility
on the part of citizens of this town, March, 1783, remains to be narrated.
It will be told in the words of Major William Crane, the leader of the
enterprise, as written the next day'" (New Jersey Gazette, No. 273) :
"I have the pleasure to inform you of the capture of the sloop Katy, of
twelve double fortified four-pounders, containing one hundred and seven-
teen puncheons of Jamaica spirits, lying, at the time of capture, within
pistol-shot of the grand battery of New York and alongside of the ship
Eagle, of twenty-four guns, which we also took, but were obliged to leave
there, as she lay aground. The captains and crews of both the vessels were
brought up by us in the sloop to this place, where we have them secure.
This was performed on the night of the third of March (Monday) by six-
townsmen, under the command of Captain Quigley and myself, without
the firing of a musket by any of our party." "The vessel and cargo were
sold at auction at Elizabeth Town, on Monday, the 17th of March"
(New Jersey Gazette, No. 272).
The fortunate escape of this armed ship Eagle, by being stuck in the
mud, is suggestive of luck in names, in calling to mind David Bushnell's
torpedoes, and the escape of Admiral Howe's flagship Eagle from de-
struction by one of Bushnell's torpedo-boats, then called an "infernal
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machine" or "marine turtle." In this submarine boat a young man
named Ezra Lee "entered the water," says Lossing, " at Whitehall, at
midnight, on the 6th of September ( 1776). * * * In a few moments
a column of water ascended a few yards from the Ragle, the cables of the
British ships were instantly cut, and they went down the bay with the
ebbing tide, in great confusion." This was the first attempt by a sub-
marine boat to blow up a ship of which there is any record, though some
unsuccessful experiments with diving- boats were made in England in 1624
and 1774 ; and a bridge was blown up at Antwerp in 1585 by a powder-
boat, whose magazine was fired by clock-work, notices of which are pub-
lished in an English work, Sleeman's " Torpedoes and Tcrpedo Warfare "
(1889). The young man Lee safely returned to the Battery. His failure
to blow up the Ragle or any of her consorts was said to be due to the fact
that he could not secure the detachable torpedo to the bottoms of any of
the ships, because of the thickness of their copper sheathing.
In 1777 the British frigate Cerberus, at anchor off New London,
escaped destruction by Bushnell's drifting torpedoes. One of them
exploding, however, astern of the ship, caused the destruction of a boat,
accompanied by the loss of three lives.
In January, 177S, occurred the "battle of the kegs," when a number
of Bushnell's torpedoes were sent in kegs down the Delaware River from
Bordentown by "some Whigs." The British ships in the river, fortu-
nately for them, escaped at this time also, with only a great scare, having
hauled into the docks ai Philadelphia on the night of the kegs' attack.
Francis Hopkinson, one of the Signers, and father of Joseph, who was the
author of the national song "Hail Columbia, " wrote the well-known
laughable verses entitled "The Battle of the Kegs, " descriptive of the
British fright.
Colonel Crane was a lieutenant of artillery under Montgomery at
Quebec, and when his commander fell, December 31, 1775, Crane was
wounded in the ankle by a piece of an exploded shell, from which he suf-
fered until his death, which occurred forty years afterwards, the foot having
shortly theretofore been amputated. After the war he was made a general
of militia in recognition of his brilliant exploit at the Battery and his other
war services.
In the churchyard of the First Piesbyterian Church at Elizabeth, a
tombstone bears the following inscription :
''Sacred to the Memory of
GENERAL WILLIAM CRANE,
Who died July 30th, 18 14,
Aged 67 years.
"One of the firmest patriots of our Revolution ; in the darkest period
of his country's oppression and danger he volunteered in her cause and
was wounded in her defence.
"Probity, benevolence, and patriotism characterized his life. He lived
beloved and died lamented. His sons have caused this monument, a
faint tribute of gratitude and affection, to be erected over his grave."
One of the sons of General Crane was the late Commodore William
Montgomery Crane of the navy, who entered the service in 1799. He
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had a command and distinguished himself both at Tripoli and in the war
of 1812 ; was Naval Commissioner in 1841, and the first Chief of the
Bureau of Ordnance in 1842. He died in Washington in 1846. It was
doubtless the fame of the father's exploit at the Battery that determined
the son's naval career.
Privateering as a means of warfare, though authorized by the Consti-
tution of the United States, may not be regarded with favor. Indeed, by
treaty, and attempts at treaty, some nations have sought its abolition.
But privateering or no privateering, while the United States admits and
contends that "free" ships make "free" goods, contraband of war ex-
cepted, yet private property at sea, even not contraband of war, but carried
in lawful commerce, is not yet entirely exempt from an enemy's seizure ;
and special commerce-destroying public-armed ships of the highest attain-
able speed, coupled with great powers of endurance for long sea-cruises,
are now being built by this and foreign governments. Every officer and
enlisted man of a ship of war, within signalling distance and capable of
rendering assistance at the time of a lawful capture, is entitled by our laws
to share in the prize, after condemnation and judgment in a prize court.
Notwithstanding all the bitterness between Tory and Patriot engendered
by the war, and the innumerable mutual predatory incursions made by New
Jersey's citizens against, and suffered by them from, the common enemy,
we have the testimony of New Jersey's good and great governor,-- William
Livingston, to the honorable conduct of the New Jersey patriots. In
a letter to General Washington dated May 14, 1782, "predicated no
doubt," says General Stryker in his Toms River address above mentioned,
"on a perusal in Rivington's Gazette of the severe arraignment of the
patriots by the Tory Board," Governor Livingston says: "I really do
not recollect that the militia of this State, or any other of its citizens, have
ever committed against a prisoner of war any act of cruelty, or treated any
such prisoner, in any instance, contrary to the laws of arms."
Who can say that the brilliant examples of Dayton and Stirling, and
of Huyler and Crane and their men, upon the water, and the recitals of
their deeds, then still fresh in living minds, did not largely serve to stim-
ulate the growth of New Jersey's large roll of distinguished naval officers
subsequent to the Revolution, though not unmindful of the great service
performed by the Continental navy and privateers as a whole? "A
record of maritime operations under the several colonies and on private
account during the war would," says Lossing, "fill a volume." "It is
asserted by good authority that the number of vessels captured by Amer-
ican cruisers during the war was eight hundred and three, and that the
value of merchandise obtained, amounted to over eleven millions of dollars.
The British vessels in the West India trade suffered terribly from our pri-
vateers. Clarke, in his 'Naval History' (I, 61), says that of a fleet of
sixty vessels from Ireland for the West Indies, thirty-five were captured by
American privateers. Our cruisers almost destroyed the British trade
with Africa. At the beginning of the war two hundred ships were employed
in that trade ; at the close of 1777, only forty vessels were thus employed.''
To Somers, and the grandeur of his fate at Tripoli ; to Lawrence, Bain-
bridge, and Stockton, natives ; and to the great captain Charles Stewart,
a citizen by adoption, not to name other distinguished sailor-sons, mari-
time New Jersey may ever point with pride.
Bainbridge and Stewart, successively after Hull in the war of 1812,
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commanded the frigate Constitution, and under all three the lucky, noble
"Old Ironsides" made captures among the most brilliant in naval history.
Ten years ago this society was entertained by the reading before it of a
literary and biographic gem, by its present president. Its subject was
"Commodore Isaac Hull." May I add here, that in my boyhood, from fam-
ilv tradition, I learned that the day before he set sail from the Chesapeake,
on that eventful cruise on which, skillfully escaping from the enemy's
fleet, he captured a few days thereafter one of his pursuers, the Guerriere,
Hull passed the evening at my maternal grandfather's house in Annap-
olis, during which visit his hopes and anxieties were freely expressed.
An old song, composed soon after the war of 18 12, thus sounds the
praises of the Constitution 's victories, and the Hornet's victory under
Lawrence, in the order of their occurrence :
" First Dacres, who thought he the Yankees could scare,
Proudly wrote on his sails, ' I'm the famed Guerribre.'
Says Hull, ' Are you there?' So together they pulled;
In forty-five minutes the Guerriere was Hulled.
"See the firm Constitution, our Washington's pride,
With Bainbridge at helm, in true majesty ride ;
Pour a stream from her side, like Vesuvius' red lava
Which quite overwhelmed the whole Island of Java.
" Then a Peacock was strutting about in his pride,
When a Hornet, like lightning, stuck close in his side,
Which stung him so sore, that from battle he turned ;
Noble Lawrence that Peacock in ocean inurned.
" But hark again braves ! 'tis old ' Ironsides ' roar ;
With peals of her thunder 'round ocean and shore,
The Levant and Crane, so terribly did quake,
Bold Stewart soon found them reduced in his wake."
The old song continues in a similar strain to devote a stanza to nearly
every naval victory of the war.
Happily the instances are few in which our naval officers have failed,
in the judgment of the Government, to fully support the country's honor
in those emergencies in both peace and war which sometimes occur with
but little time for deliberation. And rare, also, are the cases in which,
rightly, wrongly, the officer has been censured for proceeding too. far when
his country's honor was assailed.
The navy of to-day, in ships, ordnance, and materials of war, is being
rehabilitated by gradual approaches to obvious requirements, if the coun-
try, as of yore, would maintain security at home and respect abroad.
And the navy personnel is now, as it ever has been in the past, ready for
all demands upon it, though skilful and gallant handling is now required
of very different types of vessels. The new machine navy is the successor
of the old sailing navy, and inherits its glories. The nation surely can
never forget the one, nor in the future neglect the other. With such a
coast as ours and such a commerce as must again cover the sea under the
American flag, and as long as supported by a diplomacy at home which,
while demanding only what is right, will submit to nothing that is wrong,
our navy will continue to be, as in the past, in pace decus, in hello prcesidium.
IOO The Count of Paris. [April,
THE COUNT OF PARIS.
By Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has recently
lost from among its limited number of honorary members one of the most
illustrious soldiers of the nineteenth century, and the last survivor of the
four great captains who led the armies of the North to victory. Curiously
enough they were representatives, through their ancestry, of the nationali-
ties that comprise the Kingdom of Great Britain : The Scotchman Grant,
the Welshman Thomas, the Irishman Sheridan, and the Englishman
and survivor of the famous quartette, Gen. William T. Sherman.
The place made vacant by the death of General Sherman has been filled
by the unanimous election, as an honorary member of our Society, of
Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, Count of Paris, who was born in the
Palace of the Tuileries, August 24, 1838. His father, the Duke of
Orleans, eldest son of Louis Philippe, King of France, was killed by being
thrown from his carriage at Neuilly, then a suburb of Paris. When the
throne was abdicated in 1848, the king claimed recognition as his succes-
sor for the young Count of Paris, but he, with all the other members of the
Orleans family, were driven from France. The Duchess of Orleans, with
her two sons, soon after sought refuge in England, where they remained
for ten years, and where the young princes were educated. After her
death in 1858, the king their grandfather having died in 1850, the count
and his brother travelled in Europe for several years. Desiring to see
something of actual war and the New World, they crossed the Atlantic in
September, 1861, accompanied by their eldest uncle, the Prince Joinville,
and before the close of the month accepted positions as volunteer aides on
the staff of the commander of the Army of the Potomac. The princes were
known as Captain Louis Philippe of Orleans and Captain Robert of Or-
leans. They served without pay or emolument, were present at the siege
of Yorktown, and served in the severe engagements around Richmond.
After General McClellan's retreat in July, 1862, the count and his
brother resigned their commissions, owing to the increasing ccolness
between France and the United States arising from Napoleon's interference
in the affairs of Mexico. War was among the possibilities, and the young
princes could not fight against the flag of their native land. Returning
to France, the count in May, 1864, married his cousin Marie, daughter
of the Duke of Montpensier, who last year died in Spain. Of their six
children, the eldest is the Queen of Portugal, while the second is the
Duke of Orleans, who accompanied the count to this country in 1890,
and who was recently imprisoned for returning to France in defiance of
the Expulsion Act of 1886.
The Count of Paris offered his services to France at the beginning of
the war with Germany in 1870, but they were declined. He, however,
obtained a seat in the National Assembly, and later was commissioned
colonel and placed on the retired list of the army. The accompanying
portrait was taken at that time. In 1873, as chief of the Orleanists he
met the Count of Chambord, head of the Bourbon or elder branch of the
royal family of France, and formally recognized him as the representative
of the royal house and de jure King of France. Ten years later Cham-
i89i.]
The Count of Paris.
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bord died, and the Count of Paris succeeded to his rights, being generally
acknowledged by the Legitimists. .In the summer of 1889 the count
and countess celebrated their silver wedding at Sheen House, near Rich-
mond on the Thames, at which the writer and his family were present,
the only other Americans who enjoyed the privilege being Mrs. and Miss
McClellan, Lady Randolph Churchill, and several members of the United
States legation. The Orleans family were there, with many of the old
noblesse of France, members of the Eng-
lish royal family, and perhaps a thousand
ladies and gentlemen, including numbers
of the most distinguished personages of
London society.
On the second day of October, 1890,
the count and his son, with six compan-
ions, arrived in New York, and before sail-
ing on his return to England, a month
later, he had visited Gettysburg and other
battle-fields of the Civil War in which he
participated, had seen Philadelphia, Wash-
ington, and Niagara Falls, and spent several
days in Montreal and Quebec, an account
of which appears in an attractive illustrated
brochure now before me, entitled " Recep- /?? d^^p
Hon de Mgr. le Comte de Paris a Montreal ^^^^^^^y'
et Quebec." Perhaps the most notable /*-* {7 y^
among the many public and private enter- ^ ■*-<>£/<z^*<i
tainments extended to the count and his
party was the dinner given at the Plaza Hotel, New York, by one
hundred and four of his comrades of the Army of the Potomac, includ-
ing nine corps commanders. Generals Sherman and Schofield were
present as guests and made speeches, as did the count and others who
participated in this remarkable gathering of old soldiers. As a souvenir
of the memorable occasion, each of the five-score and four officers after-
wards received from the count a large photograph with his autograph
attached.
The Count of Paris is the author of the best history of the American
Civil War which has as yet appeared. It was published in Paris between
the years 1874—1887, in eight octavo volumes, of which an excellent Eng-
lish translation has been issued in this country. To this monumental but
incomplete work, the author has devoted much of his time for nearly
twenty years. Under date of February 29th he writes from his Spanish
residence, near Seville : ''I left England to seek a warmer climate in the
South of Europe, visited the queen my daughter in Portugal, and came at
last to this place of mine, where I shall wait for the return of spring.
. As for the completion of my history of the Civil War, about
which you kindly inquire, I wish I could say something satisfactory.
Unfortunately, the erratic life of an exile and the busy career of the leader
of a great political party are not favorable to such an undertaking, and I
have now so little leisure to devote to a work which requires almost a life-
time, that I cannot hope to make much progress under the present cir-
cumstances."
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John Jordan Latting.
[April,
JOHN JORDAN LATTING.
In the fifteenth century there lived at Malines, in Flanders, Pierre
Lettin, the earliest ancestor to whom the subject of this sketch traces his
family.
His descendants, by the name of Jean (John), for three generations,
were Secretaries and Registrars of the Supreme Tribunal of Malines, and
some of them are buried in the old Cathedral of St. Rombout.
The family bore arms as follows :
" D'arg. a trois chev. de sin., ace. de trois etoiles de sa."
One of these, John Lettin, driven from his native land in 1567 by the
persecutions under the Duke of Alva, settled in Norwich, England, where
he died in the year 1640, leaving several children ; two of whom removed
to London, and, with their wives and
some of their children, are buried in
St. Dionis Back-Church and Allhal-
lows Church in that city.
From this John Lettin was de-
scended that Richard Lettin, some-
times spelled Lattin, and, in the next
generation, Latting, who, in the year
1638, came from England, and be-
tween that date and 1688, with his son
Josiah, purchased from the Matine-
cock Indian proprietors the whole of
the present site of Lattingtown, in
Oyster Bay, Queens County, Long
Island.
Here have lived seven generations
of the family, and here, March 31,
1 819, in the old family homestead,
since demolished — a long, low, rambling structure, an antiquated build-
ing, embowered in vines and roses, overlooking Long Island Sound,
and known as " Rose Cottage " — Mr. Latting was born.
His father, Charles Latting, the fifth in descent from Richard, was a
man of literary tastes, strict, correct and methodical, in all his course of
life ; early associated with his brothers in the firm of Latting & Deall,
extensive shipping merchants in New York, he passed much of his time
as supercargo on the vessels of that firm, making voyages to the West
Indies and to England, and finally retired to the old family estate at
Lattingtown.
His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Frost, was a woman of
sterling worth and gentle nature.
Their son John was the youngest of two sons by this marriage.
A boy of studious habit, of quiet and retiring disposition, he inclined
naturally toward a collegiate education, and prepared for college at the
Oyster Bay Academy under the instruction of Professor Gerardus Beek-
man Docharty, well known for his series of mathematical and scientific
works, and a successful teacher of his day.
Entering Middlebury College, Vermont, in his seventeenth year, in
the spring of 1835, during the presidency of Rev. Joshua Bates, D. I). , it
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became immediately a charmed existence for him. Not the least of his
pleasures there were his vacations passed at the home of his father's sister,
Ethelinda Deal], widow of Peter Deall, an English gentleman and re-
tired merchant. Their residence on the shore of Lake Champlain, near
old Fort Ticonderoga, was a place of frequent pilgrimage, and in this
picturesque and historic spot, in the company of his aged aunt — an ac-
complished hostess of unusual intelligence and remarkable for her con-
versational talents — he sympathized in the incidents of her eventful life,
and acquired that deep respect and veneration for old age that was a con-
spicuous trait in his character.
His classmates were always affectionately remembered as friends and
companions, and his Alma Mater, his college days and college friendships,
were often recalled by him with a deep, romantic interest ; he sometimes
revisited the scenes of his life there, and at the time of his death was en-
gaged in correspondence with his surviving classmates, preparing their
histories for publication.
He graduated in the class of 1838, and came immediately to New
York, where he entered upon the study of the law in the office of Peter
A. Jay and Lewis M. Rutherfurd, composing the firm of Jay & Ruther-
furd ; he further studied in the office of Griffin & Havens, and, finally, in
that of Charles B. Moore and Chas. S. Havenson. Admitted to the Bar in
January, 1842, he began practice with Charles B. Moore, and shortly
afterward entered into partnership with him in the firm of Cutting, Moore
& Latting, of which one of the other members was the noted Francis B. L.
Cutting, already sketched in our Record — Vol. L, pp. 161 to 173. This
partnership being dissolved in 1844, in November of that year he united
with Lathrop S. Eddy in the firm of Eddy & Latting, and subsequently
formed a partnership with Caleb S. Woodhull. Upon the latter's election
to the office of mayor of the city, he entered into partnership with Abram
Wakeman, then a rising young lawyer, a Member of the Assembly and
subsequemly Postmaster and Surveyor of the Port of New York.
For a few years, during Mr. Wakeman's absence in Congress, Ed-
ward J. Phelps, of Vermont, late Minister to the Court of St. James and
one of his college friends at Middlebury, was a member of the firm prac-
tising under the name of Wakeman, Latting & Phelps.
Upon Mr. Wakeman's return and Mr. Phelps's retirement, the firm of
Wakeman & Latting continued in active practice until the month of
August, 1885, when Mr. Latting was stricken with apoplexy at his office.
For forty-three years he had devoted himself to his profession, giving
his attention particularly to the law of wills, trusts, and real estate. His
education, his studious habits, his love of investigation, in whatever branch
of inquiry, he undertook, especially fitted him to be a clear and sound
adviser and a wise counsellor.
During much of this long career at the Bar of New York, his greatest
amusement and recreation were found in genealogical and historical in-
vestigations, subjects in which, for many years, he had been deeply in-
terested. To the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society he
had long given what time and labor he could spare, with genuine love
and devotion, contributing several articles to the Record and serving,
among other offices, as one of the trustees of the Society.
In the fall of 1886, being' sufficiently recovered to travel, he went
abroad with his wife and one of his sons, spending three years in Europe,
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most of the time in England and London, where, in the British Museum,
he revelled in an inexhaustible field, and where his searches and researches
received new impulse and satisfaction.
He returned to New York in July, 1889, unimproved in health but
patient and uncomplaining, spending the evening of his life in the midst
of his family, conscious that the end might come at any moment and of
the reward that awaited him.
Mr. Latting married in 1849 Harriet Augusta Emerson, daughter of
Rev. Brown Emerson, D. D., of Salem, Massachusetts, and grand-
daughter of the Rev. Daniel Hopkins, D.D., the brother of the Rev.
Samuel Hopkins, D. D., LL.D., author of the "System of Divinity" —
names long to be remembered in the history of New England.
His life was calm and unobtrusive, his character guileless and pure.
Retaining to the last his love of poetry and the classics, on the afternoon
of December 16, 1890, seated in his library, he had just laid aside the
First Ode of Horace, when, without warning, without pain, and without
suffering, his gentle spirit passed away.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Proceedings ok tiie Society. — The meetings of the Society through the winter
have been up to the usual mark in point of attendance, and the addresses have been
of exceptional interest and value. On the 10th of October, the first meeting of the
season, Mr. Josiah C. Pumpelly, of Morristown, N. J., read a paper on " Mahlon
Dickerson of New Jersey, Industrial Pioneer and Old-time Patriot." At the fol-
lowing meeting, November 14th, Mr. William Nelson, Secretary of the New Jersey
Historical Society, spoke on " Berkeley and Carteret, First Lords Proprietors of New
Jersey." Mr. Nelson has made an exhaustive study of the early history of New Jer-
sey, and he gave, in his address, the results of his recent labors in that line. On the
12th of December Mr. P. H. Woodward, of Hartford, Conn., reviewed the patriotic
services of one of the active, though less known, heroes of the Revolution, Colonel
Thomas Knowlton. At the annual meeting of the Society, held, according to the
by-laws, on the first Wednesday of January, Dr. S. S. Purple, Gen. Jas. Grant Wil-
son, and Mr. William P. Robinson, whose terms as Trustees had expired, were re-
elected for the ensuing three years. On Friday, January 9, 1891, Mr. Philip Randall
Voorhees, the well-known lawyer of this city, read a paper on " New Jersey's Flo-
tilla-Men in New York Bay during the Revolution" ; and the February meeting, held
on the 13th, was addressed by Dr. George Stewart, F. R.G.S., President of the
Ouebec Historical Society, on "Count Frontenac, Governor of New France." The
lecturer traced the early career of the distinguished soldier and statesman, and
described briefly the Salons, the court beauties of King Louis's reign, and the men
and women who swayed the destinies of France. The count's mission to the New
\\ orld was then touched upon, Dr. Stewart showing how eager the governor was to
build up the country, and spread the spirit of colonization and Christianity among
the people. He called a convention in 1672, seeking to inaugurate a monarchical
form of government, and, with much pomp, created three estates of his realm, the
Clergy, Nobles, and Commons. The king, however, opposed the scheme, and
Frontenac was sharply reprimanded for his pains. He possessed wonderful power
over the Indians, knowing well when to apply blandishments and when to threaten
and punish. The lecturer gave several examples of Frontenac's method of concili-
ating the savage tribes which infested the districts, and gave a graphic account of the
great Indian Council at Fort Frontenac, and the comparative facility with which the
governor turned the tables on the Iroquois, and forced them from antagonism into
submission. His subjection of the bushrangers, and his quarrels with Perrot, the
Governor of Montreal, with Bishop Laval and the Jesuits, and the Sulpicians, with
the Intendants Talon and Duchesneau, and with the Court itself — the latter leading
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to his recall — were dwelt upon and explained tersely and clearly. 1 >r. Stewart
brought his valuable address to a close by a brief glance at some of the authorities
who have treated the administration of the count at great length, complimenting
particularly Parkman, Laverdiere, Faillon, Garneau, and Ferland. The lecturer then
presented the- Society with a large photograph of the massive bronze statue of Fron-
tenac, the work of Mi. Hebert, a Canadian sculptor of fine ability, winch was
placed last autumn in one of the niches in front of the Parliament buildings in
Quebec. At this meeting, which was held in the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre, ad-
dresses were also made by Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York, Arch-
deacon Mackay Smith, Rev. Newland Maynard, and Gen. Charles W. Darling of
Utica, N. V. The Society has had a prosperous winter and is rapidly growing in
membership and influence. Its library, through the generosity of friends, is be-
coming exceedingly useful and valuable, and it is hoped and expected that before
another year has passed the Society will be comfortably and permanently housed in
a building of its own.
An interesting address was delivered in the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre by Col.
.Asa liird Gardiner, LL.D.. on Friday evening, March 13 : subject, " The Society of
the Cincinnati," of which order Colonel Gardiner is the Secretary-General. At the
close of the address the president paid a touching tribute to his old friend and chief,
General Sherman, an honorary member of the Society.
Among the many prominent persons recently elected members of the Society are
Mr. John A. King, President of the Xew York Historical Society ; Col. Kdwin A.
Stevens, Mr. Henry Day, Mr. Lawrence Turnure, Mr. Hamilton R. Fairfax, Col.
Asa Bird Gardiner, Mr. William (i. Verplanck, Mr. Killian Van Rensselaer, Mr.
William Rhinelander, and the Hon. William C. Whitney. In January, the Count of
Taris was proposed by the President, and elected as an Honorary Member, and in
February Dr. George Stewart, F.R.G.S., of Canada, as a corresponding member of
the Society.
At the April meeting of the Society an address will be delivered by the Rev.
Arthur W. H. Eaton on the second Friday of the month. In May the Rev. Morgan
Dix, D.D., will address the Society on the late John Jacob Astor, and the June ad-
dress will be by Gen. Charles W. Darling, of Utica: subject, " Horatio Seymour."
The address by Dr. Dix will appear in the July number of the Record, accompanied
by a fine steel portrait of Mr. Astor.
Mr. James Lodkr Raymond sends the following extractsfrom the family Bible of
Witt. 1 am Du VALL of 40. Maiden Lane, New York, who during the early part of this
century was a respected merchant and citizen, and for some time trustee of " Old
John Street Church." His father, Thomas Du Vail, was a soldier in the New Jersey
Line of the Continental Army, and for a time prisoner of war in the " Old Sugar
House" in Liberty Street, New York.
Thomas Du Vail of Second River (Belleville), N, J., was born in the year 1739.
He married Ann Ennis. They had the following children :
William, born Febr'y 3d, 1770 ; died July 8th, 1837.
Joseph, " " Novr. 2d, 1832.
John. " 1783 ; " Septr. 2ist, 1S41.
Thomas, " " March nth, 1836.
James, " " June, 1819.
Ann. " " March, 1846.
Thomas Du Vail, Sr., died at Belleville, N. J., Augt. 51I1, 1826.
Ann, his wife, died May 16th, 1809, ret. 65 years.
William Du Vail married Hannah Stuart, March 16, 1797, at New York City.
They had the following children :
died Ap'l 1st, 1847.
in infancy.
Aug't 4th, 1845.
" Dec. 3d, 1846.
" Febr'y 6th, 1887.
" June 30th, 1832.
" Jan'y 29th, 1858.
" June 28th, 1866.
" Ap'l 13th, 1873.
William Stuart,
born Jan'y
18th,
179S
Mary Ann,
" March
17th,
1800
Louisa,
" Febr'y
9th,
1S02
Joseph W. .
" March
14th,
1804
Mary Ann,
" [une
12th,
1806
Thomas Tyson,
" Ap'l
9th,
1808
John Bullis,
" June
3d,
1811
Harriet,
'•' May
22d,
1813
Hannah Caroline,
" Aug't
16th,
1816
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MARRIAGES.
William Stuart Du Vail to Margaret Brown, March 5th, 1820.
Louisa Du Vail " Daniel Sickels, Septr. 12th, 1S30.
Joseph W. Du Vail, M.D. " Eliza Ogden, Augt. 19th, 1830.
John Bullis Du Vail " Lavenia Seaman, , 1S50.
Hannah Caroline Du Vail "' James M. Raymond, June loth, 1835.
William Stuart formerly of New Castle, ^England, came to this country about
1765. Taught school at Second River, N. J. (1766), for many years, at which place
he was married to Ann Donington, Nov. 25th, 1770. He died Dec. 24th, 1784.
His wife died June 19th, 1813. They had two children.
1. Mary Ann, born ; died .
2. Hannah, born Dec. 16th, 1776 ; died Oct. 28th, 1831.
The first married Samuel Bonsall of Spring Valley, N. J.
The second married William Du Vail of New York City.
The life of Mrs. Sarah D. Hyatt, who died January 10 at Honey Meadow Brook,
Dutchess County, at the age of almost 101 years, is a striking illustration of the lon-
gevity and good health that result from careful habits and a cheerful mind. Mrs.
Hyatt was a descendant of an old French family originally called De Ville. When
a branch of the family came to this country before the Revolution, the name became
corrupted to Deuel. The progenitor of the Deuel family in this country, who was a
travelling missioner, became a Quaker, and his descendants have all or nearly all been
Quakers. Mrs. Hyatt was born in Dover, Dutchess County, in May, 1790. She mar-
ried James Hyatt at the age of twenty-five, and had a number of children, four of whom
are still living. Her husband died in 1862, and since then she has lived with her eld-
est son at Honey Meadow Brook. At the age ot ninety-five she suffered an accident
by which one of her legs was broken. It was supposed that at her advanced age the
shock would be fatal, but to the surprise of all she recovered, and was able to walk
again in three months. She retained all her faculties up to within three days of her
death, and was always of a pleasant, companionable disposition. She had a taste for
literature, and could quote at length from Whittier, Shakespeare, and others of her
favorite poets. It was her habit never to be idle, but always to employ her faculties
at something. It is to this and careful habits of diet that she attributed her great
vigor and longevity. Another venerable woman, Mrs. Eunice Beers, also died at
the same great age and during the same month, at Omaha, Neb. She was 101 years
old, and well connected, being a daughter of the millionnaire baker of New York, the
late Cyrus Strong, and closely related to ex-President Hayes. In the early history of
the Territory of Nebraska she was influential in preventing a number of Indian mas-
sacres. J. G. W,
From Albany County Records, copied for the New York Genealogical Society
by B. Fernovv.
Soldiers in garrison at Fort Albany, on the 26th of October, 16S9, who took the
oath of allegiance to King William and Queen Mary :
Charles Rodgers, Iq Ralph Grant.
Christopher Barrisford, f k *> ' William Haaton.
John Holman, ) William Hatter.
John Gilbert, [- Corporals. Stephen Hooper.
John Thomson, ) William Rodgers.
Thomas Rodgerson, Drummer. John Radecliffe.
Gerret Arentse. Richard Tunnell.
Robert Barritt. Elias Van Ravesteyn.
John Carter. Richard White.
John Denny. Richard Wilson.
William Ellis. Thomas Wakefield.
Robert Farringhton.
Stationed at the Half Moon, and sworn in on the 10th of November:
Tobyas Henderson. James Willet.
James Larmond. Joshua Grant.
William Powel.
Thomas Sherer refuses.
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Within the last two or three years the Record has been able to give accounts
of two undoubted Centenarians, Mrs. Sarah Smith, of New Orleans, and Mrs.
Agnes Allen Kissam, of Brooklyn. In both these cases the records are in existence
and the evidence is complete. A third, Miss Fanny Allen, of Fredericton, N. B.,
who died in 1S76, was, according to her own statement and the belief of her family,
a girl of twelve years old when she went with her father from New York to St. John
in 17S3. There can be no reasonable doubt that the record of her baptism was in one
of the register books of Trinity Church which were burnt in the great fire of 1776.
Curiously enough, the family records perished in the fire which almost destroyed St.
John a few years ago. The Church Times of December 24, 1890, contains an ac-
count of a fourtn centenarian, still living, the Rev. John Flliott, the oldest clergyman
of the Church of England. Though it is the rule of the Record to print nothing but
original matter, we think that the interest and value of this item will justify us in reprint-
ing it. "A venerable clergyman, the oldest indeed in the Church, has just entered
upon his one hundredth year. The Rev. John Elliott, vicar of Randwick, Gloucester-
shire, was born on December 19, 1791. Educated at Oxford, he was ordained deacon
in 1817 and priest in 1818. In the following year he was appointed to the living of
Randwick, so that he has held his present position for a period of over seventy years.
He has not officiated for the past few years, his duties being performed by his curate,
the Rev. E. W. Edwards ; but as late as September, 1890, he delivered a short ad-
dress in his church to about fifty school-masters and school-mistresses." A later
paper mentions the death of Mr. Elliott on Sunday, the 4th of January.
A PHENOMENAL instance of literary vandalism has lately occurred in the city of
Buffalo, where all the valuable letters and other documents relating to the adminis-
tration of Millard Fillmore were destroyed by the executor of the ex-President's only
son, whose will contained a mandate to that effect. Why he should have wished
in this way to destroy an important part of the history of his country, as well as of his
father's honorable career, or why any intelligent lawyer should have consigned to the
flames thousands of papers by Webster and other illustrious men without at least
causing copies of the most valuable of them to be made, is entirely beyond the compre-
hension of ordinary mortals. To the writer, in pointing out his carefully preserved
papers, the ex-President said, " In those cases can be found every important letter and
document which I received during my administration, and which will enable the future
historian or biographer to prepare an authentic account of that period of our country's
history." As a Buffalo correspondent writes to me, " The only opportunity probably
that ever would present itself for properly defending and explaining the signing of the
Fugitive Slave bill — the existence of an unquestioned and strong public sentiment in
favor of the President's doing so — the recommendations that the act be done, made
by Mr. Fillmore's most eminent advisers — the proof of all these things unquestion-
ably would have been presented by the letters and documents referred to ; and now
every one of these is gone!" j. g. \v.
George Bancroft gave up horseback riding two years ago, but almost to the
very end continued to take long walks for a man of his great age. About a year be-
fore his death he one afternoon invited General Grant Wilson to accompany him, and
they walked out to Georgetown. As they were returning a street-car approached,
and the general, thinking the old gentleman of eighty-nine had gone far enough on
foot, suggested that perhaps they had better ride, when the historian asked in vigor-
ous tones, "Are you fatigued, sir?" They returned on foot, a distance of some
three miles, znd that evening met again at a dinner table, when Mr. Bancroft, none
the worse for his long walk, merrily related how he had tired out his young New
York friend. About the same time Mr. Brady made a fine photograph of the vener-
able man, the last portrait taken of him. Among the many letters written during
the past quarter of a century by the historian to the president of 0111 Society, is the
following, dated Washington, May 3, 1882: " I am constrained to look upon life here
as a season for labor. Being more than fourscore years old, I know the time for my re-
lease will soon come. Conscious of being near the shore of eternity, I wait without
impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will speedily sum-
mon me to rest."
A large number of families of Dutch descent in Germany are incensed and
troubled over a recent decision of the Prussian College of Heraldry. Heretofore the
Dutch families with the prefix "van" to their names have considered themselves
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members of the German nobility and equal in every respect to the German families
which were entitled to the use of " von." According to the investigations of the
Heralds, however, " van " is not a nobiliary particle, but was used simply to designate
the town or village from which the person came. Hereafter, therefore, the " vans"
in Germany are not to be considered members of the nobility, or to be entitled to its
privileges. J. G. \v.
Information is desired as to the parentage of Elizabeth Kierstede, who died,
January 26, 1760, aged 81. She was the wife of Hans Kierstede, born August 20,
"1673 ; sponsors, Balthasar and Maria Bayard. They had, with other children, Maria,
died, November, 1762, aged 59 ; married, May iS, 1723, to James Livingston. Hans
Kierstede was the son of Dr. Hans Kierstede. died, May 14, 1691, and his wife
Jannetie Lookermann (N. Y. G. & B. Record, Vol. XIII., p. 24). M. L. D.
Those pleasant harbingers of returning spring, the robins and red birds, first
appeared in the Central Park on the seventh of March, and the little crocuses ap-
peared in sunny corners of the Ramble a week later. J. G. \V.
In the sketch of Rev. Dr. Charles W. Baird. in the October Record, the name
of his mother should have been Fermine Du Buisson, instead of Firmine D. Boisson.
OBITUARIES.
Clinton Bowen Fisk was born December 8th, 1828, at Clapp's Corners, now
called Griegsville, a little country cross-roads near York, in Livingston County, N. Y.
He was the fifth son of Benjamin Fisk, a sturdy New England blacksmith, who traced
his Lincolnshire ancestry back to the year 1700, and Lydia Aldrich, of Killingly, Con-
necticut, of "Welsh descent. In May, 1830, the family removed to Lenawee County,
Mich., where Captain Fisk, as he was called, established himself at a place known as
Clinton, which consisted of little else than the blacksmith shop with its log house
attachment, a rude frontier inn, and a small country store. Two years later he died,
leaving a widow with six sons, a quarter section of uncultivated land, with the log
house and blacksmith shop. At nine years of age Clinton was apprenticed to a farmer
named Wright, for whom he was to work until twenty-one years old, the terms of the
agreement being that he should have " three months of schooling each year," for four
years, and when of age, he should receive $200 in money, a horse, saddle, bridle, and
two suits of clothes.
The energetic and ambitious boy's hunger for an education soon overleaped the
narrow bounds of "Deacon" Wright's farm, and he was kindly released from his
contract after two years' honest and faithful work. The story of the next few years
is that of a youth struggling successfully against adverse circumstances to educate
himself, and also to contribute to the support of his widowed mother. At seventeen
he was a clerk in a shop at Manchester, and at twenty he entered the service of the
leading firm of Coldwater. Two years later Fisk married Miss Jeannette A. Crip-
pen, daughter of the senior member of the firm, who bore him two sons and a daughter.
He soon became a partner in the house, and assumed the care of its banking interests.
When the financial crash came in 1857, Mr. Fisk was successful in meeting all the
obligations of the firm, and in the following year he removed to St. Louis, where he
was made .the western financial manager of the yEtna Fire Insurance Company, of
Hartford, Conn. He was chiefly instrumental in organizing the Union Merchants'
Exchange, the old exchange having become disloyal to the Federal Government. The
new exchange soon became the great financial body of St. Louis, and Mr. Fisk served
as its secretary in its early days.
In the ranks of those who secretly drilled for the Union cause before the com-
mencement of the Civil War in 1861 was Clinton B. Fisk, and he enlisted as a private
for three months' service in the Missouri Home Guards. In 1862 he was authorized
to recruit a regiment to be equipped and sent to the front by the Union Exchange.
Of this organization, which was completed in September, he was commissioned colo-
nel. In October he was ordered to leave his regiment, the Thirty-third Missouri Vol-
unteers, in the field and to return to St. Louis and form a brigade. Of this he was
made the commander, receiving his commission as brigadier-general November 24.
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The brigade was sent to Helena, Ark., where it participated in various operations of
the war. In January, 1863, General Fisk was assigned to the command of the Sec-
ond Infantry Division of the Army of East Arkansas, and took part in the unsuccess-
ful Yazoo Pass expedition. Early in the summer of the same year he returned to
Missouri, when he relieved General Davidson in command of the Department of
Southeast Missouri, with headquarters at Pilot Knob. In March, 1S64, he was trans-
ferred to Northern Missouri, and when General Sterling Price attacked the State cap-
ital he was defeated and driven out of Missouri by General P'isk, and the State saved
to the Union.
On March 13, 1865, Fisk was breveted major-general of volunteers, having pre-
viously received the full rank of major-general from the State, and the thanks of the
Missouri Senate and House of Representatives. His resignation was pending at the
war department when the assassination of Lincoln occurred. It was not accepted,
and he was assigned to duty as assistant commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau for
the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, with headquarters at Nashville. Here he set
to work to restore confidence between the whites and blacks ; to readjust the relations
of society, and to bring about a revival of industry. General Fisk's executive ability,
his mild but firm methods, and his calm judgment, served him well in making the
•Bureau a success ; and when he resigned from the army, September 1, 1866, he had
won the confidence and esteem of the people whom he had so efficiently aided. Dur-
ing this period he established the Fisk School of Freedmen, and from this humble be-
ginning grew the Fisk University of Nashville, of which he was president of the Board
of Trustees until the date of his death. Returning to St. Louis he was appointed
Missouri State Commissioner of the Southwest Railway, and later he was made its
vice-president and land commissioner, continuing his connection with the company
until 1S77. Five years before this time he had removed to New York, and in J>74
General Grant appointed him a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, winch
Board immediately elected him president, and this office he held at the time of his
death. In 1S77 General Fisk, on the advice of his physician, visited Europe, and
since that time was occupied with his private affairs as well as with the business of
various institutions and corporations with which he was connected. lie was president
of the East Tennessee Land Company, and of the New York Accident Insurance
Company, a member of the Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
a trustee of several colleges connected with that denomination.
General Fisk first became prominently associated with the Prohibition movement
in 1884, when he was urged to accept the nomination for the presidency on that ticket,
but he persistently declined. He was the Prohibition candidate for Governor of New
Jersey in 1886, having had, for many years, a summer residence at Seabright. He
worked during the campaign with characteristic energy, making some six score
speeches, and never missing an engagement. In 18SS he received the nomination for
the presidency against his wish and protest. He made but a few addresses, and did
not enter actively in the canvass. He received 251,147 votes.
His active and busy career closed Wednesday morning July 9, 1890, at his New
York home, No. 175 West 58th Street. The immediate cause of his death was heart
failure brought on by rheumatic fever. He passed away in the presence of those near
and dear to him, in the possession of all his faculties, and in the confident hope of
a blessed immortality. Almost his last utterance was the second verse of Newman's
" Lead, Kindly Light." His funeral services were held in New York on July 11, in
the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and his remains were interred in
Oak Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich. Memorial services in his honor were held
in the Lenox Lyceum, New York, and in many other cities and towns throughout
the country.
Clinton Bowen Fisk was a strong, sturdy type of American manhood — a soldier,
statesman, philanthropist, and successful man of- affairs. He was a true patriot, the
foremost layman of the Methodist Church, a friend of the Indian and Negro, and
deeply interested in the wide field of charitable and missionary work. Deliberate in
council, decisive in action, success followed all his many undertakings. Whatever he
believed at all he believed with his whole soul. His concentrated and persistent energy
in such widely contrasted fields of activity mark him as a model for his young country-
men. He was blessed with a strong mind and a vigorous frame, possessing, what
Fuller quaintly calls, " a handsome man-case ;" and he was assuredly a shining exam-
ple of brave old Sam Johnson's assertion, that " useful diligence will at last prevail."
j. e. w.
j JO Book Notices. [April,
John WlLEY, an old ar.d highly respected cilizen of New York, died at his home
in East Orange, N. J., on the 21st of February, 1891, in the eighty-second year of his
age. Mr. Wiley was born at Flatbush, on Long Island, October 4, 1808. He mar-
ried on the 29th of April, 1833, and was the father of eleven children, five of whom
are now living. His father, Charles Wiley, whose wife was Lydia Tillinghast, estab-
lished, in 1803, the well-known publishing and bookselling house which is still car-
ried on by his grandsons. The Wileys, father and son, were for three-quarters of a
century the principal booksellers of Columbia College, and were held in high esteem
by the successive librarians for their intelligence, integrity, and ability. Of late
years, however, Mr. Wiley and his two sons, to whom he intrusted the chief care of
his business, turned their attention chiefly to the publication of engineering, chemi-
cal, and other scientific works. The grandfather of Mr. Wiley was John Wiley of
Revolutionary fame, the leader of the Sons of Liberty when they pulled down the
statue of King George III. in the Bowling Green in New York. The letter alluded
to by the writer of the " Life and Times of General John Lamb" (p. 151), in which
Captain Wiley threatens reprisals, is in the possession of his great-grandson, Mr. Wil-
liam H. Wiley of New York.
Mrs. Sarah Diodati Gardiner Thompson, died on Sunday, March 8, 1891,
at her residence, No. 25 Lafayette Place, New York City, from the effects of a fall
which she sustained about six weeks previously. Mrs. Thompson was born at the
Manor House, Gardiner's Island, November 1, 1S07, and was consequently in her 84th
year. Her father, John Lyon Gardiner, was seventh proprietor of this ancient estate.
Her mother, Sarah Griswold, was daughter of John Griswold, and grand-daughter of
Matthew Griswold of Black Hall, Chief Justice and Governor of Connecticut. Mrs.
Thompson was married at the Manor House on the island to her distant cousin,
David Thompson, who held various financial offices, and at the time of his death,
February 22, 1871, was President of the N. Y. Life Insurance and Trust Company,
and Vice-President of the Bank of America. Mrs. Thompson was a lady of lovely
disposition, cultured, refined, and a thorough gentlewoman of the old school. She
was a devoted wife and mother, and respected and loved by a large circle of friends.
The funeral occurred on Wednesday, March 11, at 10.30 o'clock A. M., at her home
where she had lived for the past fifty years. The Rev. Dr. George Alexander offi-
ciated. The interment took place in the family vault in Greenwood Cemetery.
Jacob H. Lazarus died on the nth day of January last. The world of art has
lost a prominent figure in the death of this artist. Mr. Lazarus was a contemporary
of Elliot, White, and Baker, and a pupil of Inman's. He had been painting for
forty-five years. His specialty was portraits, and he painted the portraits of many
prominent people, such as the Astors, Belmonts, Livingstons, Redmonds, Mrs. Sam-
uel Betts, Professor Schmidt of Columbia College, Fordyce Barker, M.D., Governors
Hoffman, Jewell, and English. He did not confine himself to portraiture, but
painted many ideal heads and figures, rich in color and strong in design. Lazarus
was one of the most competent judges of the value of paintings in the country, and
his opinions were widely sought and recognized. He began life as a poor boy, but
became wealthy through his brush. He was a man of modest disposition and of gen-
uine worth. E. T.
BOOK NOTICES.
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kings-
ton, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly
called Esopus or Sopus), for one hundred and fifty years from their commencement in
1660. Transcribed and edited by R.OSWELL Randall Hoes, Chaplain of the U. S.
Navy, Corresponding Secretary of the New York Genealogical and Biographical
Society, etc., etc. New York : Printed for the Transcriber and Editor. By the De
Vinne Press. 1891. Quarto, pp. 797.
This volume is an important addition to the materials which are constantly
accumulating to aid the genealogist in the study of family history. If we except the
Dutch Church of Albany and the churches on Long Island, that of Kingston, i. e.
1 89 1.] Book Notices.
1 I I
Esopus, was the earliest and most important founded after that of New Amsterdam or
New York, f- The intimate associations and relations of the earlier settlers of Esopus
with those of New Amsterdam and Albany are manifest on almost every page of this
sumptuous volume. Many of the important families whose records are noticed in
the former or latter church will find one or more branches noticed in these Kings-
ton records. In fact, we know of no records that are more essential to the elucida-
tion of the history of the ancient families of New Netherland than those which we are
here called upon to notice.
The chronological transcript which Chaplain Hoes has here presented to the pub-
lic commences with the year 1660, one year after the organization of the church, and
closes with the year 1S09. In the preface to the volume he states that the transcript
has received "four careful revisions ;" the magnitude of this labor, together with
that of the preparation of the eight indices, will be fully understood when we inform
our readers that these indices alone contain references to 44,388 names. He also
informs us that owing to the variations in spelling in the Kingston Church Register,
growing out of the admixture of Dutch and Cerman dominies and their varying ten-/-
dencies in orthography, " no attempt has been made to correct or modify the text as
written by the Dutch dominies, and the proper names in this work may therefore be
regarded as exact orthographical representations of those contained in the original
Registers."
The typographical execution of the volume is one of great beauty, and may be pro-
nounced as one of the best efforts of the De Vinne Press. The price of the work is
ten dollars, and may be obtained on application to Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes,
Frederick, Maryland. A copy should be in every library of reference in this country.
S. S. P.
Seton of Parbroath in Scotland and America. Printed for private circula.
tion. i2mo, pp. 28. New York, 1890.
Although the author of this concise but carefully written and very thorough his-
tory of his family modestly withholds his name, it is no secret that it is the Rev.
Robert Seton, Rector of St. Joseph's Church, Jersey City, who is entitled to be called
Monsignor, as an officer of the late Pope's household. The original parchment copy
of the pedigree brought from Scotland was destroyed, together with a large number
of documents, miniatures, and heirlooms, in the great fire of 1836 ; but family
notices, entries, and records remain, from which the pedigree has been compiled.
Maitland of Lethington, whose mother was a Seton, begins it with Dougall or
Dugdale de Setoun, the son of him who first settled in Scotland. This Setoun
flourished in the time of King Alexander I., a.d. 1109-1124. The line is traced in a
singularly clear and compact, yet very full, manner, to Sir Alexander Seton, a loyal
servant of the Bruce, 1308, after which the lines of Winton and Parbroath diverge.
The elder line appears to have grown wonderfully and to have extended itself in
various branches to France and Italy, and even to Sweden, as well as to have allied
itself with the most honorable families of Scotland. The fourth son of Sir Alexander
Seton, John, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Ramsay of
Parbroath, of the ancient and illustrious family which now holds the earldom of
Dalhousie. From them descend the Setons of Parbroath, now of New York. The
pedigree is brought down, with great precision, to William Seton of New York, the
present representative of the Parbroath family. The book, small as it is, is full of
information. It appears to be the work of a clear-headed and judicious man, who
has the pen of a ready writer.
The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, Descendants of William and
Ozias Goodwin. Compiled by James Junius Goodwin. Hartford, Conn. : Brown &
Gross, 1 891.
It rarely happens, as in the beautiful volume before us, that the author or editor
has the cooperation, as contributors, of three such accomplished genealogists as Mr.
Henry F. Waters, whose discoveries in England in regard to the ancestry of John
Harvard, Roger Williams, and Washington are well known ; of the Rev. Augustus
Jessopp, D.D., the eminent English antiquary ; and of Mr. Frank W. Starr, of Mid-
dletown, Conn., who has performed so much good work of this character. The Table
of Contents includes : " The Goodwins of East Anglia, Report on English Investiga-
tions,'Families of William and Ozias Goodwin, and Notes on other American Good-
win Families." The value of the well-printed octavo volume, of 798 pages, is enhanced
by the simple and easily understood arrangement of the records, by the ten tabular
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pedigrees, and by the twelve photographic portraits of prominent members of the
Goodwin family, each accompanied by a fac-simile of their autographs. There are
three carefully prepared indexes, filling more than fifty pages, the first giving the
Christian names with dates of birth ; the second, the intermarriages ; and the third, other
surnames. We congratulate the compiler of this very attractive and valuable volume,
who is an honored member of our Society, on the successful completion of his labor
of love, which has occupied his leisure hours for many years, and most heartily com-
mend it as a model for other gleaners in the field of genealogy. j. g. \v.
Extracts from the Journal of Sarah Howland, with Letters and other
Papers. Compiled by her grandson, Howland Pell. iSgo.
This lady, born in 1781, died in 1847, was the daughter of Thomas Hazard, Jr.,
of South Kingston, R. I., and the wife of John H. Howland of New York. The
introduction, which is the work of the compiler, gives some account of the allied
families of Hazard, Rodman, Howland, Pell and Borden, much of which is taken
from records made or preserved by Mrs. Howland. The journal begins with an ac-
count of a journey from New York to Niagara Falls, made by Mr. and Mrs. How-
land in their own carriage, with a single pair of horses, in the summer of 1818. The
journey took two months, and we are told that although the horses were driven
nearly every day they returned in better condition than when they set out. The rest
of the journal gives accounts of similar journeys in New York and the neighboring
States. Then follow some poems, and the volume ends with a series of letters from
herself and from various members of her family, in which many well-known names
occur, and which may give some idea of the life and customs of the earlier part of
the present century.
Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and their Descendants. By
Thomas C. Cornell, their grandson. Printed for the family. A. V. Haight, Pough-
keepsie. 1890.
This elegant book is described by its author as the work of the leisure hours of
a busy man. It displays, however, much industry, research, and labor. It com-
bines history with genealogy. It is written in pure and graceful English, and is free
from affectation or provincialism. The author knows what he wants to say and
knows how to say it. The book, a volume of more than four hundred pages, includes
not only a history of the large family of Mott, but also pedigrees of Carpenter, Cod-
dington, Underbill, Willis, Titus, Seaman, and Richbell. A chapter is given to an
account of Captain Thomas Willett, the first Mayor of New York, " with some notes
of the Willitls." The author brings out the fact, which, indeed, has been heretofore
mentioned in the Record, that there are three families bearing these names, which
do not appear to be related to one another. The book is enriched with no less than
ninety-four portraits and other illustrations.
Captains of Industry. Second Series. A Book for Young Americans. By
James Parton. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. i2mo, 1891.
Some six or seven years ago, Mr. Parton issued an entertaining volume of brief
sketches of prominent men noted for benevolence and public spirit. The Second
Series is perhaps even more interesting than the first, and can be safely commended
as a good and wholesome book for young Americans. Among the forty-eight sketches
of successful men introduced in this volume, are notices of three New Yorkers, Philip
Hone the auctioneer ; James Lenox the book collector ; and John Delafield the mer-
chant, and intimate friend of Washington Irving, who made him the hero of the
beautiful story of " The Wife," in his ever popular " Sketch Book." J. G. W.
The Scotch-Irish in America. Proceedings and Addresses ok hie Second
Congress at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 29 to June i, 1890. Svo, 305 pp.
Cincinnati : Robert Clarke & Co. 1890.
Many of the addresses of the first meeting of the Scotch-Irish Society of America
were admirable. In the volume before us, containing an excellent portrait of Robert
Bonner, President of the Society, we find several particularly valuable addresses,
among which maybe mentioned " The Ulster of To-day," by Ur. John Hall ; " The
Prestons of America,'' by William E. Robinson ; and " The Scotch-Irish of New
England," by Prof. Arthur L. Perry, of Williams College. We commend this vol-
ume to the attention of our readers. J. G. \v.
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Epochs of American History. The Colonies, 1492-1750, by Reuben Gold
Thwaites. New York and London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1891.
The author of " Historic Waterways " and " The Story of Wisconsin," in the well-
printed volume under notice, has given an admirable abstract of American history
during the Colonial period. Its value is enhanced by carefully prepared maps repre-
senting the condition of North America in respect to the claims arising out of ex-
ploration and occupancy by England, France, Holland, Portugal, and Spain, in 1650,
in 1700, and in 1750. The volume also contains a useful map illustrating the physical
features of the United States, and a carefully prepared index. J. o. \\ .
Vital RECORD OF RHODE [SLAND, 1636-1850. First Series. Births, Marriages,
and Deaths. By James N. Arnold. Vol. I. Providence, 1891.
These Rhode Island records have been very carefully prepared under the names
of the towns of Warwick, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, and Coventry, with a
<rood index. The work will embrace three volumes, and will prove of great interest
to the genealogical student. Mr. Arnold, who is editor of the Narra^ansett Historical
Kt'^ister, deserves praise for his earnest labors in this field. E. T.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
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Humphreys. 1883 — Old Streets of New York under the Dutch, by James W.
Gerard, New York, 1S74 — Early History of Hempstead, L. I., by Charles 1',.
Moore. New York, 1S79 — Descendants of Nicholas Stilwell, by William II. Stil-
well. New York, 1883 — Life of Samuel Stilwell, by Samuel Stilwell Doughty.
New York, 1S77 — Reformed Dutch Church, New Utrecht, I.. I., by Rev. David
Tuphen. Brooklyn, 1807 — Life of Edward Doughty, by Samuel S. Doughty.
New York, 1880 — Sketch of Roger M. Sherman, by William A. Beers. Bridge-
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1837 — Correct Arms of the State of New York. Albany, 188 1 — New England
Genealogical Society Quarter Centennial Discourse. Boston, 1*70 — Evacuation
Day, 1783, by James Riker. New York, 1SS3 — and thirty genealogical manuscripts.
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Washington Centenary. New York, 18S9 — Genealogy of the Descendants of
Laurence and Cassandra Southwick. Boston, 1890 — Cienealogy of the Royal
Family, by Edward D. Harris. Cambridge, 18S3 — Island of Nantucket, by
Edward K. Godfrey. Boston, 1S82 — Black's Guide to Ireland. Edinburgh,
1871 — A Short History of the English People. J. R. Green. New York, 1875 —
A Residence on a Georgia Plantation, by Frances A. Kemble. New York, 1863 —
United States, Canada, and Cuba, by Amelia A. Murray. New York, 1856 — The
American Citizen, by John II. Hopkins, D.D. New York, 1857 — Uprising of a
Great People, by Mary L. Booth. New York, 1S62 — Russia as it is, by A. D.
Gurowski. New York, 1854 — Law of Nations, by Archer Poison. Phil., 1S53.
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Propositions of 1888. New York, 1890 — Year Book of St. James's Parish.
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the Donor. Newark, N. J., 1890 — Memoir of Peter Henderson, by Alfred Hen-
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Vols. XIII. and XIV. — Report of the New Jersey Boundary Commission. Tren-
ton, 1890 — Report of the State Industries. Trenton, 1890 — and thirty-two statis-
tical pamphlets.
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Adjutant-General of Connecticut, Records of the Soldiers of the Revolution, [8l2,
and the Mexican War, State of Connecticut. Hartford, 1890.
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Directories, 1843-48.
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1890 — Marinus Willett, by Daniel E. Wager — and several pamphlets.
Ellsworth Eliot. M.D. Year Book of St. Bartholomew's Church. New York,
1S90.
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1890.
Charles P. Foster, Paymaster U. S. N. Presentation of Flags to the Schools of
Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, 1890.
George H. Butler, M.D. Annual Report of the American Historical Association.
Washington, 1S90.
New York Historical Society. Connecticut Federalism, by James C. Welling,
LL.D. New York, 1890.
Philip R. Voorhees. Address on the 100th Anniversary of St. John's College,
Annapolis, by the Donor. Baltimore, 1889.
Isaac J. Greenwood. Allertons of New England and Virginia, by the Donor.
New York, 1890.
Reynold W. Wilcox, Madison. The Soldiers' Memorial, May 25, 1890, by the
Donor. New York, 1890.
M. B. Du Bois. Louis and Jacques Du Bois, by William E. Du Bois. Philadelphia,
1876.
SamuelS. Purple, M.D. The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family in the United
States. By Rev. David D. Field, D.D. 8vo. New York, 1857.
Department of State. International American Conference. 4 volumes 4to.
Washington, 1890.
John Jordan, JR. Memorial of John Jordan. Philadelphia, 1890.
G. Clarence Topping. 250th Anniversary of Southampton, L. I.
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genealogical aitir biographical JUcortr.
Vol. XXII. NEW YORK, JULY, 1S91. No. 3.
MR. J. J. ASTOR AND HIS AMERICAN ANCESTRY.
An Address Delivered Before the New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Society, May 8, 1891, by the Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D., Rec-
tor of Trinity Church.
With a portrait of Mr. Astor.
The question has been earnestly discussed, in past days, and is still
under discussion, whether prominent position adds to or detracts from
the happiness of man. Every day, hundreds or thousands pass us by, to
whom the world pays no attention ; beyond the very limited circle in
which each moves they are unknown ; in life, they are overlooked, and in
death they are soon forgotten. Now and then, however, some figure
comes up, on which all eyes are fixed ; the name is common property,
and the acts form a part of the annals of his day. Is his the happier lot ?
Some other things must be considered, ere we can make reply. Public
opinion is the crucible in which prominent men are tried ; they walk as
it were, through flame ; on some not even the smell of fire passes ; while
in other cases, all that made the life seems to shrivel and turn to ashes.
When distinction is the result of evil action, it were better for a man
if he had lived and died unknown. But when virtue and integrity have
marked the career ; when honour has been kept unspotted, and duty has
been fulfilled ; when the State has been manfully served and Almighty God
has been loved and feared as He wills that we should love and fear Him ;
then, the man whom high position once elevated to the public view, and
who bore inspection without shame or reproach, may doubtless be pro-
nounced happy, in that regard at least, and we may call it good fortune
which brought him in his time to the front of affairs.
I come to you this evening, by invitation of the members of the worthy
and honorable Society within whose hospitable walls we are entertained,
to say some words about a man, who, though removed from sight, will be
held in perpetual memory in this community. Known to you as his personal
friend, I may infer that you do not expect from me the language of cold
and unimpassioned criticism, nor count on a display of nice and curious
balancing between the parallel lines of eulogy and animadversion. It is
intended, briefly to review his life ; to call attention to some things in-
teresting in the relation, and profitable for remembrance ; and to state
the grounds on which a place has been conceded to him, by general con-
sent, on the roll of our best citizens. The work must be done, if done
by me, in a spirit of sincere and affectionate regard ; nor only so, but
under a sense of professional restraint. One recollection, among others,
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can never be effaced ; it is that of the cold and dreary winter's night, when,
on the last Friday in the Lenten season of 1890, I was sent for, and in
haste conducted to the house and to the room where a soul was about to
pass hence to God. With prayer and sacramental viaticum, that soul
was aided in the awful transit to the mysterious world beyond the veil ;
with brief and touching words, he bade me goodbye. I cannot but think,
that he, modest and reserved as he was, almost to a fault, would have
deprecated the language of compliment and praise, in his death as in his
life ; and so, in speaking of him before you this evening, I feel almost as
if I were speaking not merely in your ears, but also in the audience of
the dead.
Let me begin with some words on the history of the house. Questions
of birth, descent, and ancestry are always of importance, in the study of a
notable life; the career of the child is to some extent determined by
the acts of the progenitor, and, by the force of the law of heredity, the
antecedents shape their consequents. In this case, a peculiar interest in-
vests the story. We are carried back in thought to days, long prior to
the American Revolution,* when the Spaniards and the French held
possession of all the country west of the Mississippi River, from the Gulf
of Mexico south to the British possessions in the north ; a vast empire,
for which from time to time, five nations have contended, each naturally
desirous of the wealth which it contained. France, Spain, Russia, Eng-
land, and finally the young republic of the starry flag, pass and repass
before us, as we gaze upon the shifting scene. " Two leading objects cf
commercial gain," writes Washington Irving, "have given birth to wide
and daring enterprise in the early history of the Americas ; the precious
metals of the south and the rich peltries of the north. While the fiery
and magnificent Spaniard, inflamed with the mania for gold, has extended
his discoveries and conquests over those brilliant countries scorched by
the ardent sun of the tropics, the adroit and buoyant Frenchman, and
the cool and calculating Briton, have pursued the less splendid, but no
less lucrative, traffic in furs amidst the hyperborean regions of the Can-
adas, until they have advanced even within the Arctic circle." That mas-
ter hand has painted attractive pictures of the ancient French establishments
to the north and northwest, where men exemplified the idea of patriarchal
ease and pride, and in lordly style controlled great interests in the Cana-
dian wilderness ; of the rise of the Hudson's Bay Co. chartered by King
Charles II., in 1670, and of the rivalry between the races, which confronted
one another in those shadowy and uncivilized regions. Then we pass on
to the year 1762, when the French Crown lost possession of Canada, and
their trade fell wholly into British hands ; and we read the story of years
of dire trouble and distress, while the moody savage, loyal to the kindly
French, and mistrusting the English, waged bloody battle against the
newcomers, and taught them the need of organization for the prosecution
of their traffic and the safety of their lives. And so was formed that nota-
ble "North West Co.", which held, as we are told, a lordly sway over
the wintry lakes and boundless forests of the Canadas, almost equal to
that of the East India Co. over the voluptuous climes and magnificent
realms of Orient ; and subsequently with a view to satisfy the unquench-
able thirst of the English, another company appears, bearing the name of
Mackinaw, and intending to work south, down the Mississippi River,
* 1762.
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and thus to monopolize the trade with the South and West and an-
cient Louisiana. On these comprehensive and flourishing schemes, the
United States Government, then in its infancy, but restless and impatient
with the sense of inborn power, looked with wary eyes and growing un-
easiness ; making, at intervals, abortive attempts to counteract the British,
to acquire a foothold in the territory, to attract the Indian tribes, and
to divert some, at least, of that branch of trade into national channels, but
casting about, uncertain, for the means of doing what soon must be done.
We have reached the point at which our personal record unites with the
current of public events. You know, of course, the place, whare from
its eminence, the ancient and ruinous castle of Heidelberg looks down
upon the Valley of the Neckar. Not far from that town, in what was
once the Grand Duchy of Baden, is the little village of Waldorf; where,
on the 17th of July, 1763, a child was born who was destined to found
a house in the greatest City of the New World, and to make for himself
and a line of worthy descendants, a great and honored name. Sprung, not
of princely or noble race, but from the ranks of the working people,
he was one of those who control circumstance and make fortune bend
submissive to their will.
One morning in the Autumn of the year 1783, this youth, leaving his
quiet home, set his face toward the lands across the Western Ocean ; * in
the month of January following he landed at Baltimore, bringing with
him little or nothing but youth, and health, a stout heart, and an in-
tellect which, to use the expression of one who knew him intimately, would
have qualified him for the command of an army of 500,000 men. To
German thrift, and German industry and patience, and German honesty
and honour, the path of conquest lies open. He came to the country at
a time rich in opportunity, and his quick eye took in the need and the
promise of the hour. The Revolutionary War was ended, but the fron-
tier ports of Oswego, Niagara, and Detroit, still in possession of the Brit-
ish, opposed a barrier to the prosecution of commercial enterprises by the
American Government. On the final surrender of those ports in 1794—5,
the way was open for our youth, already qualified by personal experience
and adventure, and by close study of the position of affairs, to profiler
counsel and aid to the President and Congress looking to the building up
of a national trade, independent of foreign agencies, and on a purely Ameri-
can basis. Your patience would be exhausted if I were to tell the whole
story. It is not necessary to do so. I have referred to it simply as an
illustration of the intellectual power and the practical skill and ability of
the founder of the house ; nor shall I say more than this, that his plan,
one of the grandest and most comprehensive ever formed by the mind of
man, included the establishment of a chain of posts extending from the
* It is an interesting fact that an elder brother of John Jacob Astor was in the
German Military Service in North America during the Revolutionary War ; probably
through him the attention of the younger man was first turned to America. The
Astor referred to was a private in one of those contingents hired by King George III.
for service against his rebellious subjects. The recent publication of the Journal of
Captain Pausch has changed our estimate of the Hessians, showing them to have been
not only thoroughly good soldiers, but also honest, sober. God-fearing men, of the-
same stamp as the German troops who fought in the Franco-German War. It was
not their fault that they served against the Americans, but that of the petty autocrats
who sold them like droves of cattle. Astor remained in this country after the war,
and identified himself with its interests and fortunes, as did many others of his class.
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Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast ; the erection of a town on that coast,
at the mouth of the Columbia River; the acquisition of one of the group
of the Sandwich Islands as an intermediate station ; and the opening
of communication with all these points by the aid of a line of vessels,
thus connecting New York, the tropical Islands, the central station of
Astoria, the Russian possessions in the far north, and China and India
across the Pacific Ocean. To carry out this magnificent idea, the Amer-
ican Fur Company was founded by him in 1807, and the City of Asto-
ria in 1 8 1 1 , and ships had already begun to wing their way across the seas,
when the plan came to naught, partly through treachery, and partly
through the breaking out of the War in 181 2. The record remains, an
impei ishable and indisputable proof of the genius of him who conceived
the plan which, under more auspicious circumstances, might have been
carried to a complete success.
This man, JOHN JACOB ASTOR, was the founder of that distin-
guished house which bears his name.* It is unnecessary to say more about
him ; but thus much at least it seemed proper to say, in order 10 throw
light on the early annals of the family. That the qualities once con-
spicuously employed in national interests, were subsequently turned to
better account in a more restricted field, is too well known to need repeti-
tion. How he lived in style befitting his position as the wealthiest pri-
vate citizen of the United States, yet simply and becomingly ; how he
surrounded himself with literary men, and collected about him the treas-
ures of literature and art; how he founded the Librarv which forms one
of the treasured ornaments of our City, and how at last he passed away,
honored, respected, and admired, are facts with which you are familiar.
He died March 29, 1848, and his son, William B. Astor, born September
19, 1792, succeeded, as heir to the estate and head of the house.
Of that admirable man I shall have little to say. There are those in
this hall to-night, who well remember his mild and kindly face, his gra-
cious presence, and that inimitable air of high breeding and culture,
which, though it does not make, yet certainly does mark the gentleman.
The son did justice to the father's pride and hope. Mr. William B.
Astor stood deservedly among the first in this community. He conducted
the vast affairs with which he was entrusted with prudence and ability ;
and devoted much time to the preservation and increase of an estate, no
part of which was ever squandered in recklessness or misappropriated to
evil ends. Fitted by his education, first at Heidelberg and then at Got-
tingen, for the enjoyment and cultivation of literary and artistic instincts,
he gave attention to liberal and aesthetic studies, and carried out his
father's plans in that direction. The elder Astor had already left by will
$400,000 to found the Library which bears his name. The son added,
during his life-time and by will $450,000 to that amount, completing the
original building in 1853, and adding another in 1859; which gifts he
supplemented by^another of $100,000 in books. He married Margaret
Rebecca Armstrong, a lady of noteworthy lineage. Her family was of
* John Jacob Astor, born July 17, 1763, in Waldorf, Duchy of Baden, married in
1785, Sarah Todd, daughter of Adam Todd and Margaret Dodge his wife. Mrs.
Sarah Astor died March, 1S34, in the 73d year of her age. Their children were John
Jacob, jr., William Backhouse, and three daughters, who were afterwards the Count-
ess of Rumpff; Mrs. Hristed, wife of the Rev. John Bristed ; and Mrs. Walter Lang-
don.
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Scottish origin, as the name indicates, and of the number who, for polit-
ical reasons, found it necessary to fly from their own country during
the agitations and rebellions of the Eighteenth Century. The Arm-
strongs took refuge in Enniskillen, in the north of Ireland, whence John
Armstrong came to America. This man earned distinction in the war
with France in 1755-6 and was afterwards commissioned as brigadier-
general in the Continental Army. For his military services he
received from Pennsylvania, the State of his adoption, the first medal
ever struck by that State, together with other honours. His son,
a second John Armstrong, was also a soldier, and served during
the Campaign against Burgoyne which closed at Saratoga. General Arm-
strong was Secretary of War in President Madison's Cabinet, United
States Senator, and Minister to France. His sons, Henry B., John, and
Kosciusko Armstrong, were well known and conspicuous in their day ; the
last-named was a highly accomplished gentleman of literary tastes.
His daughter, Margaret Rebecca Armstrong, married Mr. William B.
Astor, who spent much time in foreign travel. Mrs. Astor is remem-
bered as a dignified lady of the old school, a person of much loveliness of
character and sweetness of manners. Her husband was well read ; he
spoke the French and German languages with fluency and with a perfect
accent, and was among the most courteous men in Society. Of these
parents, on the 10th of June, 1822, and in this City, the subject of this
address, John Jacob Astor, the second of the name, was born.
It need hardly be said that great care and attention were bestowed on
his education. Its foundation was completed at Columbia College,
where he was graduated in the class of 1839. He was then sent to Got-
tingen, where his father had pursued his studies thirty years before. On
returning to America, he entered the Law School of Harvard University,
took its diploma, and spent a year in this City in the practice of the law.
Master of the German and several other foreign languages ; a good classical
scholar ; acquainted with the principles and practice of the law, and in-
heriting from his father and grandfather those qualities which fit men for
serious work and grave responsibility, he began that career which has now
terminated in the peace and rest of God.
On the 9th of December, 1846, occurred his marriage with Charlotte
Augusta Gibbes. That lady was of a South Carolina family ; she, and
her future husband had been acquainted with each other from their child-
hood, and their attachment was one of those on which it helps and cheers
the mind to dwell; unwavering devotion, unshaken fidelity, love without
dissimulation ; alas ! how often do we miss them in the married state !
To this auspicious union it will be a pleasure to revert, at a later point
in the course of these remarks.
Fourteen years now passed ; they were devoted to attention to the
Astor Estate, which, already large and steadily increasing, gave scope to
the undivided activity of its owners. It was a predestination which called
him to take up that work ; not to have done his best would have been a
dereliction of duty. Great wealth is a trust, and an honourable one.
Under free institutions, there can be no interference with its acquisition by
fair and honest means ; and, once acquired, it imposes the heaviest of re-
sponsibilities. It was the obvious duty of the possessor of the largest fortune
in America, to keep it together as it came to him, to exercise a wise and
generous stewardship thereof during his life, and to transmit it in sound
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condition to his successors ; and this gave him ample occupation during
the earlier years of his career.
In 1 86 1 commenced that great and terrible conflict, in which the na-
tion strove for its existence against external and internal foes. Mr. Astor
was prompt to recognize and obey the call of his country to serve her
cause in person. His military career began with an appointment on the
staff of Major General George B. McClellan, as Aide-de-Camp with the
rank of Colonel. He saw service with the Army of the Potomac, and
subsequently received the brevet of Brigadier General of U. S. Volunteers,
for meritorious conduct during the Campaign of the Peninsula. He was
dev\)ted to his Chief, and had a high opinion of the ability of that dis-
tinguished Officer. The military career of Mr. Astor affords little to stir
the imagination or gratify the love of the marvellous ; but it formed an
important episode in his history. That a man, with such vast interests
depending on him, should take his life in his hand and go to the front,
was, to say the least, unnecessary ; the act compels admiration, and proves
the unselfishness of his character. His wife, inspired by love of country
and patriotic sentiments, and leading a life of daily self-sacrifice, accepted,
without a murmur, the determination of her husband to serve in the field,
at an hour when, after severe reverses, the national cause looked dark,
and to many an eye desperate. An incident in the War shows the spirit
in which this sacrifice of rest and safety was made. It is related of Mr.
Astor, that on one occasion he accompanied General Martindale on a tour
of inspection, in which they passed outside their works and rode in front
under a continuous and heavy fire from the enemy. The officer who had
led them that dangerous way and had received a rebuke from the Gene-
ral commanding, for placing them all in such imminent peril for no suf-
ficient reason, moralized upon the situation, thus : "I," said he, "am
only a poor soldier with nothing but my sword ; but if I had been the heir
to the Astor fortune and estate, I would have run away, if I had been hanged
for it." It was said of Col. Astor, by an old army officer closely associated
with him during the war, that he was as intent on learning the duties of
the soldier as though his future success in life depended on promotion in
the Army of the United States. In after years, he took the utmost pleas-
ure in attending the reunions of his old comrades in arms, as a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. I quote
from a report submitted and adopted at a meeting of the Commandery of
the State of New York, May 28, 1S90, the following words : —
" Of all his memories of a long and active life, the one to which he
reverted with the greatest satisfaction was his service in the field in 1862,
with the Army of the Potomac; the remembrance of the patriotic ardour
of the troops, of their jubilant confidence in McClellan ; of the privations
of the bivouac, of the exposures and dangers of the seven days' battles,
of the forlorn appearance and redoubtable qualities of the enemy — all
these and many more he cherished with an interest akin to the attach-
ment with which his thoughts ever after followed the officers who had been
his companions in those stirring and memorable scenes."
After the close of the war, Mr. Astor made no further appearance in
public life. In the year 1879, President Hayes offered him the position
of Minister to the Court of St. James, a position which he was in every
particular qualified to fill to the credit of his country and to the advan-
tage of the national government ; but he declined the invitation, as it is
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said, under the influence of a modesty and dislike of publicity, which were
characteristic of him thrpughout his life and appear to have grown upon
him with advancing years.
It has been truly said of Mr. Astor, that "few rich men have borne
responsibility so wisely, or have walked so far above the common tempt-
ations of wealth." Its possession invites to self-indulgence and ignoble
ease, to the gratification of personal desires, and to the pursuit of pleas-
ure for its own sake. No one could know him without being impressed
by the fact, that he was notably free from the influence of such base and
unworthy considerations. I have spoken of his life as a man of affairs as
the fulfillment of an inherited responsibility. Early associated with his
father in the care and management of his property, and instructed in those
principles of honesty, industry, and integrity, which had guided his pre-
decessors, he proved himself worthy of his education. At every point of
contact with affairs, he seemed to know what ought to be done and how
best to do it. True to the traditions of his house, he was not less true to
the progressive spirit of the age in which he lived. How often have we
seen great fortunes, which were accumulated by patient industry, or trans-
mitted by inheritance, squandered and wrecked by spendthrift fools ! how
often are ancestral names dishonoured by the vices of the later scions
of the line ! In this case, no sordid motive decided action, nor did selfish
desire constrain the conduct ! This was indeed a representative man of
wealth, exact in business habits, courteous and kindlv to all, just and
reasonable in his dealings with those dependent on him. It is my per-
sonal privilege to mention in this connection the services rendered by him
to the cause of religion, as a vestryman and warden of the Parish of Trin-
ity Church. He was recognized as one of the most valuable of the mem-
bers of that Corporation. His strong common sense, his familiarity with
practical methods of procedure, his intimate acquaintance with real estate
and city property, his unerringly correct judgment, and his absolute in-
tegrity, gave him a position and an influence, the more readily acknowl-
edged because it was never abused. Not only in committee, but outside,
and from day to day his counsel and advice were sought by his colleagues,
whenever subjects of great importance were under consideration. And
for myself, I may add, that I owe him a debt of gratitude in that regard,
which I take pleasure in acknowledging before this audience ; for what-
ever the occasion on which I felt impelled to go to him — and of such
there were many, and they were often attended by pain, doubt, and per-
plexitv, — I felt relief at once, in the cordial greeting, the words of cheer,
and the intelligent counsel that followed.
As might have been expected, the son took pleasure in carrying on the
work of his father and grandfather in building up the Astor Library.
His gifts to it amounted to a sum exceeding $800,000. From the Report
of the Trustees of that Institution, dated January 14, 1S91, it appears
that Mr. Astor became a trustee in 1858. At that date, the middle hall
of the Library was unfinished, and the number of books was 1 10,000. In
1875, on trie death of Mr. William B. Astor, the building, as enlarged
by him, had been some years in use ; and the number of volumes was
152,440. Mr. John Jacob Astor further increased the building by add-
ing the north wing or hall ; the whole Library was rearranged for con-
venient use, and a complete catalogue of the books was made, the num-
ber having increased to 235,101. The Trustees in the report already
122 Mr. J. J. As/or and his American Ancestry. [July,
referred to, expressed themselves, with reference to their departed asso-
ciate, in the following terms :
" Mr. Astor was the grandson of the founder of the Library ; for more
than thirty years one of its Trustees ; and for more than twenty years its
Treasurer. While he may be said to have inherited certain duties to-
ward the Library, he had been so educated as to perform them fully, and
brought to the service of the institution both a stalwart mind and body,
large acquaintance with books and men, sound judgment and full ap-
preciation of the advantages and needs of the Library, and a firm de-
termination that there should be no deterioration in its character or use-
fulness during his connection with it. With these qualities and aims, he
devoted himself to its service with unceasing faithfulness and interest, and
added a constant and judicious liberality ; so that it is to his munificence
that the Library is indebted for a new building, large sums spent in the
purchase of books, a continuation of the catalogue, and, finally, large ad-
ditions to the permanent fund for the purchase of books, by testamentary
disposition ; thus almost doubling its resources and usefulness.
"During all Mr. Astor's connection with this great charity, he sus-
tained the relation of a noble patron and faithful servant and a devoted
friend. A just respect for his well-known opinions on such subjects, con-
fines this minute to his official and personal life in connection with
the Astor Library only. It may be permitted «to the Trustees, however,
to bear affectionate witness to those qualities which made the delibera-
tions and proceedings of the Board at all times harmonious, and which
induced his associates to become his frieneds.
" Who shall speak with sufficient delicacy of Mr. Astor's tact and con-
sideration— whether as a benefactor who preferred to remain unthanked
and unknown, and who declined to assume the most prominent position
in the body, or, as a member of the Board, in his bearing toward his fel-
low Trustees in the administration of the affairs of the Library and the
disposition of the various questions from time to time under consideration ?
"The present condition of the institution is enduring proof of Mr.
Astor's services on its behalf ; and the personal regret experienced at his
death, evidence of the wisdom and consideration with which he has per-
formed his duties."
You can well understand the peculiar pleasure experienced by Mr.
Astor in making his frequent gifts of manuscripts, first editions, incu-
nabula, and the like literary treasures to the Library which bore his name.
Those exquisitely illuminated missals, those precious volumes over which
Dibdin, the veteran bibliomaniac, would have gone into characteristic rap-
tures of delight, remain with us perpetual proofs of his knowledge, his
taste, and his liberality. That goodly and gentle company, the lovers of
old books, may claim him as one of their number. He was rather
bibliophile than bibliomaniac ; an able, learned, and sedulous biblio-
grapher, the enthusiasm was his without the folly; he was one of that
fortunate class, who have the learning, the discrimination, and the pas-
sion for the possession of the gems and jewels of the scribe and the printer,
as well as the means to gratify their honest desires. I remember his pleas-
ure and my own, on a recent occasion, when one evening in his library,
he showed me one of the most delightful of all Books of Hours on which
these eyes have ever been fortunate enough to rest, and told me the story
of its acquisition in London.
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The study of bibliography has been well commended as "one of the
most attractive and vast pursuits in which the human mind can be en-
gaged." -No taste is more elevating, where it exists uncontaminated by
a spirit of extravagance and caprice ; and in gratifying it as he did, not
by the collection of a private or personal stock of treasures from the marts
of the world, for his own selfish delectation, but by continually enlarging
a collection intended for the profit and improvement of citizens, he showed
himself a worthy disciple of Richard de Bury, and Sir Thomas More,
of Bodley, Rawlinson, and Earl Spencer.
Nor have these benefactions ceased with his death ; by his will,
the sum of $400,000 was given to the trustees, the annual income of which
is to be expended in addition to the treasures placed by his own hand in
their custody.
Let me say something about our friend in his relations to the society
of New York. His figure and aspect are well remembered : we recall
him as when we saw him, but a little while ago ; that stately and powerful
form is before us now ; the air of reserve and dignity, the bearing, which
marks the man, to whom, by nature, place and honour belong. And yet,
withal, nothing was more marked in him than modesty, dislike of pub-
licity, and uniform courtesy towards all with whom he had to do.
Arrogance was foreign to his nature ; consideration for every one, respect
for every man, whatever his place in the social circle, were characteristic
of our friend. He was not one of those who, imbued with a consciousness
of superiority, and, conceiving themselves to be of great importance in
society, seem bent on meeting public expectation ; most trying and pain-
ful persons they, whom we would fain relieve, did we know how, of some
of the high value which they set on themselves. Strong in will and thor-
oughly grounded in principles and convictions, he was unassuming, reti-
cent, and reserved.
To one who knew him most intimately, and loved and honoured him
with filial affection, I am indebted for this agreeable portrait: "His
tastes were simple, and with riper years the serious pleasures of his youth
continued to delight him. In the prime of life he possessed great vigour,
and his favorite relaxations were a walk through the woods, or an after-
noon in his rowboat, or a long ride on horseback. This zest for outdoor
exercise developed a vivid appreciation of the beauties of rural scenery.
He delighted in the blossoming expansion of Spring, and in the reveries
that Summer fields and fleeting clouds and lengthening shadows suggest.
The tints of Autumn, and the sparkling vista of the river, and the elo-
quent silence of starlight nights spoke to him in a language he grew to
understand and love."
Mr. Astor was singularly happy in his choice of a companion in his
fortunes and a sharer in his social cares and duties. It is impossible to
think of him, and of that house in which for so many years, the duties of
hospitality were fulfilled in so becoming and gracious a manner and on
so liberal a scale, without recalling that admirable woman who cast upon
the scene the splendour of her presence and adorned everv circle in which
she moved. She was a power for good, to her husband, to those who had
the advantage of her acquaintance, and to the society of New York. With
a grace and a dignity appropriate to her lineage, with tact and wisdom, with
a perfect knowledge of the usage of the world, she ordered her house and
held her state at the front of the ladies of this metropolis. "New York
124 ^r' J' J- Astor and his American Ancestry. [ J u ly,
Society," as it is called, is a reality. It has a positive existence of its own ;
the metes and bounds may be somewhat uncertain, yet it is a living entity,
to be taken into account by those who study the age and time, and are in-
terested in social philosophy and morals. In this society, as in every other,
there is good, and there is evil ; there is no reason why it should not
make for honour and righteousness, for social purity, and for the refine-
ment and elevation of the life of the city. To that end, however, it must
have leaders, and those leaders must recognize their mission. Here exist
no crown, no hereditary aristocracy, no race of nobles, to set the fashion
in manners and morals ; that work devolves on those individuals, to whom,
by common consent, and on reasonable grounds, the headship is conceded.
Mrs. Astor was of that number : during her life-time she held her office
with dignity, and exercised it with an appreciation of her responsibilities,
and with an attention to social duties so scrupulous that it ended in
exhausting her strength and shortening her life. She knew that the
woman who stands in the front rank of the society of this metropolis, ought
to represent that society for all that it can be worth to us, for truth, and
virtue, and honest living. She knew that such a person must have a
high ideal of womanhood ; that she must exert a constraining power over
her peers, and set a good example to her juniors ; that she must
frown upon the vicious, and help those who are good and true of heart ;
that her doors must be closed against women of dubious reputation, and
men whom profligacy makes conspicuous. She knew that the besetting
sins of fashionable society are self-love and self-admiration, pleasure-
seeking for the mere delight of it, frivolity, extravagance in dress, enter-
tainment, and foolish indulgence ; low rivalries, addiction to pursuits
which minister to nothing save luxury and pride, and secret, or open sym-
pathy with those influences of the period which tend to defile the thoughts
and corrupt the heart. And to her credit be it said, as it might be of some
other noble women of her class, that society was the purer and the better
for her lofty ideals and her fair example, and that she was a power and an
influence for good so long as she lived and reigned in her own hospitable
mansion and in her conceded place. Beautiful in person, accomplished
and cultivated, in every sphere of a lady's duty, attractive by manner and
conversational powers, she was a tower of strength to a husband, who
repaid her by the devotion of his heart and life.
To her the mind reverts in reading Mr. Ruskin's description of the
woman's true place and power : — " So far as she rules, all must be right,
or nothing is. She must be ehduringly, incorruptibly good ; instinctively,
infallibly wise ; — wise, not for self-development but for self-renunciation ;
wise, not that she may set herself above her husband, but that she may
never fail from his side ; wise, not with the narrowness of insolent and
loveless pride, but with the passionate gentleness of an infinitely variable,
because infinitely applicable, modesty of service. " *
Of her deeply religious character, and of her abundant charities,
among the poor, the degraded, and the wretched waifs of child-life in this
city, it is unnecessary for me to speak ; you all know the story. But one
thing comes back to me whenever I think of her; the work done by her
in person in a quarter from which it is a womanly instinct to draw back,
and which very few are qualified to perform. In a bad, low quarter of
the town, stands a house known as the " Midnight Mission." Its doors
* " Sesame and Lilies, Queen's Gardens," N. Y. Ed. 1SS2, p. ico.
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are open nightly to those wretched beings, who, stricken with remorse, or
oppressed with horror at their sin, take refuge there, asking shelter, and
protection, a place for repentance, and a start in a new life. The evening
usually finds a party of such social outcasts gathered together, for reading,
work, music, and such diversi6n as may lure them from their sorrows,
and help to elevate and refine the bruised and crushed character. Ladies
go there, to read to them, to entertain them, to talk with them quietly, about
the beauty of virtue and the peace of a pure life. Probably not one in that
forlorn company ever knew who was that " Sister Augusta" — for by that
name she went, — who statedly came to them and spent the evening
among them ; delighting them by her great conversational powers, and
particularly by her musical skill, for she was an unusually brilliant per-
former on the piano-forte ; but we know ; and I think it makes us hope-
ful and humble, to identify that modest figure in the plain dress, with
the lady who might be seen at another time, right graciously receiving in
her splendid apartments the first people of this city and of other lands.
The house, in which she and her husband dwelt so many years, once the
centre of an appropriate and ample hospitality, has now disappeared ;
the march of progress has overwhelmed, the tide of change has swept over
and submerged it ; and they whom we knew are gone hence to be with
God. Perhaps it is best that the walls have thus come down, and that
the roof-tree should have vanished. Such is the order of this fleeting
state : "As soon as the wind goeth over it is gone and the place thereof
shall know it no more. He hath put down the mighty from their seats.
. . The rich He hath sent empty away."
On the 1 2th day of December, 1887, the accomplished and lovely
lady of whom we have been thinking, after a protracted and suffering ill-
ness of a year's duration, passed from this mortal scene. Her death was
a severe blow to her husband ; a blow from which he never recovered. His
was that sorrow which slowly deepens down into the bases of the lives of
men. On the 1st of December of the following year, he said to me:
"You remember that my time of darkness is coming ; " an allusion to
the approaching anniversary of her death. He spent that day by him-
self, in seclusion ; towards evening I went to him, and we said together,
in her memory, one of those solemn offices of the dead, which bring them
so distinctly back to us and draw us so near to them. At this point, I
may perhaps, most appropriately speak of him as a churchman. He was
very well read in theology, and familiar with ecclesiastical matters. He
loved the Church with a sincere and loyal devotion ; he was a regular at-
tendant at her services, and a devout communicant ; he took great inter-
est in the music at the parish church, and promoted, by influence and
example, advance in the solemnity and beauty of ritual ; indeed, in some
particulars, he would have been glad to see things carried beyond the
point which seemed to me desirable. To him, in conjunction with his
brother, Mr. William Astor, we are indebted for that magnificent altar
and reredos erected in the parish church to the glory of Almighty God
and in loving remembrance of William B. Astor ; other gifts to the choir
and chancel were made by him from time to time. Our poor depended
on him for a large proportion of the sum annually received by them in
charity ; and it was mainly by his kind assistance that the Mission House
was built, which forms the centre of our charitable work in the lower
wards of this city. It is pleasant to remember, that it was his practice, if
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he chanced to be abroad at a season when the clergy were in need of
special help for their poor people, to send us home his usual contribu-
tions lest they should be missed by their needy recipients. It was an
instance of those minor morals, which, in the observance, indicate a just
apprehension of duty and a readiness to fulfill it, and for which the clergy,
almoners of Christ's Poor, are always grateful. The private charities of
Mr. and Mrs. Astor were very large. I am told, by a very intimate and
dear friend of theirs, once their almoner to the needy and distressed, that
he knows, of his personal knowledge,, that their joint gifts, in a quiet and
unobtrusive way, did not fall below the sum of $100,000 per annum for
many years. Of these, none knew, but the grateful recipients of that
bounty.
I have said what I had to say to you, concerning our departed friend ;
not without the impression that he would have forbidden, had it been
possible, this public commemoration of his acts and character. I am sure
that this would have been his wish, could he have expressed it. Never
had a man a greater horror of publicity. I remember his telling me that
he always tried to avoid writing notes or letters, and made them as short
as possible, through the dread of the collection and publication of corre-
spondence after death ; and when he wrote to me, it was always with the
understanding that the manuscript should be destroyed. A striking in-
stance of this habit of mind lately came to my notice. There is a very
valuable work of reference known, doubtless, to many of you as the
"Cyclopedia of American Biography." In turning over its pages, I
found sketches of the first and second of the Astor Family, and some par-
ticulars regarding the Hon. William Waldorf Astor, the present heir to
the estate ; but no more than the barest mention of the name of him who
forms the subject of this address. The learned and accomplished editor
of the work referred to, General James Grant Wilson, in casually refer-
ring to the fact in a letter to me, wrote as follows : " The explanation is
that Mr. Astor requested me as a personal favour to say as little about him
as possible. Indeed he expressed a wish that his name should be omit-
ted ; but that, I said, was impossible, and it was for that reason that he
was very briefly mentioned." Knowing, as I did, the sensitive reserve of
that modest, Christian gentleman, and divining his wishes, I have felt
under a certain restraint in making the remarks which have been thus
submitted to your consideration.
In his life, our friend kept up the honour of the name, and bore with
patience the heavy burden of his responsibilities. In dying, he trans-
mitted the double inheritance of a sterling character and an immense
fortune to his only son. This is not the place, nor is this the occasion,
to comment on the position of that honourable and distinguished gentle-
man, or to proffer counsel as to his conduct ; but, it may be said, with-
out impropriety, that during his temporary absence in a foreign land, he
is often in the thoughts of his countrymen, and that they must inevitably
regard his own career with deep interest and earnest expectations. The
State, like the family and the Church, exists by divine sanction ; her citi-
zens are her children, having duties to the commonwealth second only
to those to the Great Creator and Merciful Saviour of mankind, and to
the beloved inmates of their homes. It is true, of the citizens of this
metropolis and of this republic, that all are debtors to the common weal ;
and obviously true, moreover, that to whom much is given, of him shall
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much be required. Rich men are, and will always be, the objects of
unfriendly and unfair criticism ; it is impossible for them to satisfy the
demands of that innumerable horde who choke each avenue by which
they can be approached, or the instructions of those officious individuals
who mark out for their neighbours the exact line of conduct which ought
to be pursued. The gibes and reproaches of disappointed applicants,
and the counsel of meddlesome people, may be, without qualm of con-
science, disregarded ; but it is another and a becoming thing to call the
attention of men of wealth to their mission and their dread trusteeship,
and remind them of their obligations. Some things stand fast, and some
things change. God, and Religion, and the Church abide ; while, in the
State and Society it may be that the old order is to pass, and yield to a
new one, and that the time for startling transitions is nearer than we
think. We, therefore, in scanning the coming age, and considering the
problems of the hour, look with expectation, and I will say with anxiety,
to those who hold, by the will of God, leading places among us, and
have at their control the forces which make or mar around and beneath
them. Such men have our sympathy, and our best wishes ; it is our hope
and prayer, that the base, the sordid, and the merely personal will fill no
place in their motives ; that what they have received of honour, reputa-
tion, and character, they will keep to the credit of their line and to the
advantage of their own reputation ; that they in turn will be, as they
ought to be, public benefactors, faithful in stewardship during their life,
and after their departure commemorated by monuments attesting their
wisdom, their judgment, and their liberality.
The name of Astor has been and is now identified with the ideas of
honesty, industry, patriotism, and public service. We believe that it is
safe in the hands of those who have it to-day in their keeping, and that
it will retain in our metropolitan annals the place in which it is honour-
ably inscribed.
EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY AND ORIGINAL RECORDS
OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE
GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS, OF LONDON.
Made by Chaplain Roswell Randall Hoes, U. S. N.
Register Book of the Church of England of Hempstead, Long
Island, N. Y.
The Rev. Mr. Thomas, of this church, writing to the Secretary of the
Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, on
the 22d of April, 1707, says:
" I have often laid before my Vestry the Necessity of a Register Book in
the Parish but to no purpose, having no methods of raising a fund to de-
fray that and such like publick exigencies ***** I hope to buy
a Register Book, wch I bespoke already, and then I shall [take] particular
care to register all Christenings, Marriages and Burials according to our
Instructions from the Venerable Society. I have baptised some Scores [of]
Infants & Adults since my Arrival here, and married some dozens of
128 Extracts from the Early and Original Records. [Jubr>
Copies but wou'd never receive a farthing perquisites for them hither-
to." (See Letter Book of S. P. G., vol. 3, No. 67.)
Murder of the Hallet Family at Hellgate, in 1708.
The following extract of a letter from the Rev. William Urquhart, of
the Church of England of Jamaica, L. I., gives a number of particulars
relating to this tragedy which have never yet appeared in print. The let-
ter is dated Feb. 4, 170%, is addressed to the secretary of the S. P. G., and
is recorded in Letter Book No. 3, document No. 176, of the Records of
that Society :
******* "One \Vm Halliot junr who lived at a place
called Hellgate (it has the name from the Difficulty of Vessels passing up
and down the River). The Husband the wife and five children in less
than quarter of an hour were murdered by one Indian Slave whom he
had nursd up from 4 years old. There was a Negro Woman Slave in ye
house, who was abetting to him in Counselling and perswading him to
this bloody murder, but he confessed y* his hands murthered them all
after this manner. W™ Hallet and his Wife had been at Justice Hallet's
house (the father of the said W7m junr) with some others of their friends.
About 7 at Night he came to his House, and his wife being weary, went
to bed and all the Children : The Husband sat in the Chimney Corner
sleeping as his Custom was : The Slaves were watching their Opportunity
(for they were resolved to do it that night) and the House being some-
thing dark Sawney, for so is the Indian Slave's name called came into
the House, and had an Axe laid behind the Door, and seeing his Master
asleep took the Axe and struck him first wth the Edge and then with
the back on the Head. The first stroak waked his wife who was
abed in the same room and she called Murder, whereupon he left him
and struck her with the back of the Axe on the Head. There was one
Child lying by the Mother, who did not awake as yet and there were two
lying in a Truncle bed, about 7 or 8 years of age. Those he murthered
next and all with the back of the Axe on the head, then he dragged the
young Child out from its murthered Mother and knocked it on the head.
Then went above Stairs and murthered the two children that were there.
This he confessed and that there were some others that knew of the Mur-
ther. The Negro woman confessed the same. My Lord Cornbury is-
sued out a Special Commission of Oyer & Terminer, to Chief Justice
Montpesson, Judge Milward, Col. Willet & some others for their Tryal.
Munday last being the 2d of this instant, the Indian man was hang'd
and hung up in chains. The Negro woman was burnt alive. The Couit
is adjourned till next Week in hopes of further discoveries : There are
now in Custody upon suspicion 4 Negro men, and 2 Indians all Slaves,
not Natives here. I am afraid to loose this post and if so, this fleet but
pr next I shall give an Account what Discoveries are made in relation
to this horrid murther."
The " Distemper " in New York in 1702.
George Keith, writing from New York, on the 29th of Nov., 1702, to
the Secretary of the Venerable Society, says :
" It hath pleased Almighty God to preserve us both in good health all
the time since our arrivall into America notwithstanding many have been
1891.] Extracts from the Early and Original Records. 129
visited with great Distempers in diverse Parts which have proved mortall
to many in the Town of New York where near five hundred persons dyed
in the space of three months, but now thanks to God the place is very
healthfull." (See Society's Letter Book I., document No. 50.)
Contribution to the Ecclesiastical History of Hempstead and
Oyster Bay. — Houses of Worship. — Episcopalians, Independents,
Presbyterians, and Quakers. — Census. — Names of Smaller Vil-
lages in Hempstead and Oyster Bay. — Schools and School-Mas-
ters.— Price of Tuition, &c, &c. — 1728.
The following letter was written by the Rev. Robert Jenney to the
Secretary of the S. P. G., and is recorded in Letter Book No. 21 of that
Society, page 339 :
"I Recd vours of June ye i6th 1727. So late in the Summer, &
our Winter has been so very Severe that I had not an Opportunity be-
fore this to answer your Six important Questions containd in it nor truly
am I able yet to give you as full and perfect Account of the Several Parti-
culars contain'd in them as I woua. But what 1 am able to send you is
as follows.
"Altho the two Townships of Hempsted and Oysbay [Oyster Bay]
make but one Parish being so Settled by Act of General Assembly under
the name & title of the Parish of Hempsted, yet to avoid Disputes wch
might arise between ye two from their different interests which will some-
times Clash they made immediately upon their Settlem1 a private Agree-
ment to Act Independently of one another and that each shoud enjoy
its Advantages & Priviledges in proportion to the Share they pay of the
tax laid upon them — one third for Oysterbay and two thirds for Hemp-
sted. I have made it my Business to discover the History of the Building
of our Church and the most Exact Amount that I can obtain is from Mr.
Gilderslieve, Schoolmaster in Hempsted. He tells me that Hempstead
was Settled for some time before they had any Minister or House of Divine
Service. The first house that was built for that purpose was a very small
one we have now. And that Travelling Preachers sometimes In-
dependents sometimes Presbyterians for the most part from New Eng-
land did now and then Afficiate wthout any Covenant wth the People or
Settlem' by Law in the Year 1680. The Town agreed to build a better
house for Divine Service by the name of a meeting house but after it
was built there arose a great Controversy between ye Indepents & ye
Presbiterians, in which ye Latter got the better and one Denton was Cov-
enanted with to be their Minister, but he soon left them, as did Several
others that were afterwards Covenanted with after ye Same manner till ye
Arrival of Mr Thomas from the Honble Society upon the Settlem' of ye
Parish by Law & they inducted him into the possession of the Church
parsonage house & gl. [Glebe].
"The Church is an ordinary wooden building 40 foot Long & 26 wide.
The Roof is Cover'd with Cedar Shing[les] and the sides Clapboard with
oak. Within it is not Ceiled over head but the Sides are boarded with pine.
There is no pulpit but a rais'd Desk only having a Cloth and Cushion
of Silk (the Cloth seems to be designed for a Table) wch they say was a
prsent from Queen Anne. A Large Table Stands before the Desk where
the Justices and leading Men sit when they come to Church. And this we
1 -7Q Extracts from the Early and Original Records. [July>
are forced to make use off for a Communion Table when we receive the
Sacram1 of ye Lord's Supper. There are in it no pews except one for
Mr Secry Clark, the rest of ye Church is fill'd with open benches. It is
not kept in good repair which Occasions thin Congregations in Cold
Weather. There is no fence round it & the burial Place is at some
Distance from it. It Stands in the open Road near a Small brook which
runs between it and the Parsonage House. The Minister's-Sallary is Settled
by Act of Assembly £60. pr Ann. of which Hempsted pays 40 and Oy-
sterbay 20 by agreem' between them. I have in Possion an old ruin-
ous house much out of repair near the Church with three Acres of
poor worn out land ye Pasture of wch will not support one House.
There belongs to this personage [parsonage] a form [farm] ab' five miles
distant containing 172 acres of upland & twenty five of Meadow. I have
put a poor man upon it, but whether to any Advantage To me I cannot yet
tell. These two have been Survey'd by Mr Clowes of Jamaica, who under-
writes his draft y' ye Church has a title to a 100th Part of the whole town
of Hempsted. Besides this there is about 7 Miles distant a Smal Lott of
Meadow which I did Leave out but got nothing by it. But ye Churches
Right to all these is hotly disputed (and I am often threatened with an
Ejectm'). First by the Heires of one Ogden from whom the purchase
was made in what Year I can't find for it is not in the Records [?] &
the Deeds are lost & all those that were concern 'd in the purchase are
Dead. Secondly by the Presbyterians who plead from their purchase hav-
ing been made before any Church was settled here and from their Minis-
ters having been Long in Possession of it that it belongs to them. And
Thirdly by the Makers who are a great Body of People here & Argue
that it belongs to the Town and ought to be hired out from time to time
as Major part of the freeholders can agree.
"As to the number of Inhabitants at first I can meet with no Informa-
tion. The oldest men here living [are] at a Loss in this Point. But it is
certain that it is much greater now for ye whole parish is Settled very thick.
In the Year 1722 the then Governour order'd the number of People
throughout the Province to be given into him. The Constable of Hemp-
sted gave in 475 men 472 women 532 m. children 472 female Children.
The Constable of Oysterbay gave in 325 Men, 325 Women 331 m.
Children 268 female Children. Of Negroes and other Slaves and in
Hempsted 116 Men, 76 Women, 76 M. Children 51 female Children.
In Oysterbay 41 Men 27 Women 17 M. Children 26 female Children — in
all 3269. [It should be 3630.] Such was ye Number in my Parish at that
time & it is Supposed not to be much altered since.
"At the first coming of Mr Thomas I am Inform 'd there were not above
5 or 6 that Adhered to the Church & they brought their Religion from
England where they were born ; the rest were Independents or Presby-
terians and the most Quakers. Our Congregation in now very uncertain
being greater or Smaller according to the Weather. In Summer, we are
generally crowded entirely. Especially in the Afternoon, and also in Winter
when there is Snow Enough upon the Ground to carry their Slays, (a
very convenient and easy way of Traveling at such Seasons but they
are but rare at Other times. Our Church is generally full but
not Crowded. Most of the profess'd Members of ye Church live at a
distance from it. The Body of the Presbyterians at least the much greater
part live here in the Town Spot.
1 89 1.] Extracts from the Early and Original Records. ni
"The Peoples manner of Living is Scatter'd up & down excepting that
there are a few very small Villages as in Hempsted township there are the
Villages of Hempsted Jerusalem Success and Bungy or Westbury and In
Oysterbay there are Oysterbay Bethpage Norwilth & Wheatly. Those who
live in the Villages are ye poorest of the People the more Substantial Farm-
ers finding it lor their Interest to live at a distance from Each other.
There are but two Churches in my Parish, one at Hempsted & a very
small one at Oyster Bay where our Congregation encreases, but is yet
very Small.
"The Quakers have two meeting houses one at the head of Cowneck
another at Bungy but they meet at many places in Barns or houses accord-
ing to the bigness of their Congregations. There is in the town Spot of
Hempsted but one Presbyterian meeting house the only one in the parish
but they are so poor & few that it is with difficulty that they maintain
their Minister. We daily Expect that he will leave them. The Religions
in my Parish are a very few Presbyterians in Hempsted and rather fewer
Baptists, at Oysterbay more of the Church, More than both together of
the Quakers but most of all of Laiii..dinarians, who run from one Con-
gregation to another and hold to that Religion whose Preacher pleases
them best.
"As to the Extent of my Parish both the townships extend across the
Island about 16 Miles from North to South from East to West about 20
Miles from Corner to Corner abl 30 Miles ; The Roads are good in good
Weather but yet Travelling very troublesome in the heat of Summer and
the Cold of Winter which are both extream, For great part of my parish
being a Plain of abl 16 miles long without Shade or Shelter ye Wind &
Sun have ye full Strength and sometimes in Winter the Snow is so deep
as to make Travelling impossible and So it has been for a great part of
this Winter.
' ' There is nothing more unconstant than Schools here Excepting those
from the Honbl Society. The Usual Custom is for a Set of Neighbrs to
Engage a Schoolmaster for one Year. Tis Seldom y* they keep ye same
longer and often they are wthout for several Years. Y1' only Master has
Stay'd long with his Employers is one Keeble upon a Neck of Land in
Oysterbay call'd Musketo Cove where he behaves very well & does good
Service : The common rule for Paym' for ye Masters is pr Subscription
£20. wth diet or £30. without, But Mr Gilderslieve has five Shillings pr
Quarter for each Scholer.
" The Church has no Donations the Minister and Schoolmaster no
Benefactions ; The library is only that from the Honble Society. Negroes
are in number as above but are so dispersed that it is Impossible for me
to Instruct them & Scarce any of their Masters & Mistresses will, here
in the town Spot, Mr Clowes who ab' three quarters of a Year ago began
a Schoole Spent the Sunday Evenings in Catechising those Negroes which
wd go to him during the Winter but in Summer he has no time the
Evenings being short and the Day being taken up with the Service in the
Church being twice Performed and then there went but a few to be in-
structed by him. I have one Negroe a Communicant & my own were
baptiz'd in their Infancy ; & they (being two) shall be carefully instructed
while I have them.
" Before I conclude I must Acquaint you with my reason for Sending
the Inclos'd Letters. At my first coming here Several of the Leading
10
I -2 2 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. ["July,
Men of the Town press'd me Earnestly to represent to the honble Society the
Incapacity and Negligence of Mr Gilderslieve, not recommending any
one to Succeed him ; for they had no thought of Mr Clowes, then Mrs'
Thomas was among them who assured me that her Husband designed to
do so, if he had recover'd. I declar'd it as being a Stranger to Mr Gilder-
slieve but they would not be put [off] till I consented to send their
memorial which is enclos'd having first given Mr Gilderslieve a Copy of
it that he may know what he has to Answer to. You will find Mr Clowes
recommended in it and thereupon has wrote me a letter which is also
enclosed. I shod be unfaithfull to the honble Society if I did not Acquaint
you that I have heard some reports of Mr Clowes reflecting upon his
Sobriety but his Conduct has been so fair and regular since his coming
here that I cannot upon the Severest Observation & Enquiry find any
reason to believe them at least if he has been faulty formerly I am Satis-
fied he is not so now. He is the Son of a very active friend to the
Missionarys & the Design of our Mission, Mr Sam" Clowes of Jamaica
whose Services Especially to the two parishes of Jamaica & Hempsted
are upon Record. As to the matters of fact contain'd in the Letters, I
believe them to be true, and I know some of them to be so, and as Such
I submitt ym to the Honble Society according to my promise to the Sub-
scribers. Since my last I have baptized Eight Adult persons & 24
Infants of which two were Negroe Slaves.
"Pray make my humble Duty acceptable to the Honble Society, And
be pleased to believe me to be, Revrend Sr Y° most Humble Serv'.
" Hempsted June 27th 1728. Robt Jenney."
ARCHIBALD THOMSON AND JACOBA SCHUURMAN,
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
By Richard Wynkoop, of Brooklyn.
(Continued from Vol. XXII., April, 1891, page 74.)
Children of Rev. Edwards Marsh and Hannah G. Thompson (67).
188. Harriet N. ; b. Dec. 16, 1832, Hamilton, Can.; d. Nov. 14,
1850, Canton, 111. 189. Eunice A.; b. June 23, 1835, Barton, Can.
190. J. Edwards; b. Dec. 13, 1836 ; d. July 10, 1861 ; m. Feb. 20,
i860, Farmington, 111., Elizabeth I. Thomas. 191. Benjamin P. ; b.
Feb. 25, 1841, Nunda, N. Y. ; m. Dec. 7, 1865, Galesburg, 111., Mary
Frances Ayres ; homeo. phys., Bloomington, 111. 192. Stephen M. ; b.
Apl. 10, 1843 ; m. Sept. 21, 1882, Alice M. Pease, Sioux City, Iowa ;
lawyer.
Children 0/ Samuel Hale and Jane Thompson (68).
193. George; b. Mch. 10, d. Mch. 12, 1834. 194. Mary Eunice;
b. Oct. 21, d. Nov. n, 1835. 195. La Rue Perrine ; b. Feb. 8, 1837;
d. June 2, 1S38. 196. La Rue Perrine; b. Oct. 28, 1838; farmer.
197. Philip Thompson ; b. Aug. 15, 1840 ; d. Aug. 31, i80i.- 198. Jane
1 89 1.] Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman, \ 33
Electa ; b. Jan. 20, 1843 ; m. Sept. 20, 1867, to Enoch Heber Huntting,
a farmer ; Colfax, Wash.
Children 0/ Rev. Theo. J. Keep and Mary A. Thompson (69).
199. William John; b. June 3, 1842; m. Oberlin, May 22, 1S66,
Frances Sarah Henderson, b. Dec. 24, 1844 ; formerly of Troy, now of
Detroit. 200. Mary Jane; b. 28, 1844; d. Oct. 17, 1844.
201. Mary ; b. Apl. 22, 1846 ; d. Feb. 14, 1848. 202. Julia Eliza ;
b. Oct. 28. 1847 ; d. Mch. 12, 1848. 203. Mary Elizabeth ; b. Jan.
22, 1849, Hartford, 0.; m. June 18, 1872, to Geo. M. Clark, b. West-
minster, Vt., June 10, 1841; Chicago. 204. Fanny Maria; b. Nov. 22,
1856 ; m. Jan. 1, 1885, to Normand Smith Pattan, b. July 10, 1852.
Children of John Thompson (70) and Anne E. Glover.
205. Philip George ; b. Oct. 4, 1852 ; m. Dec. 25, 1885, Carrie
Munsell ; farmer in Dakota. 206. Sarah Caroline ; b. June 9, 1854 ;
d. Apl. 15, 18S7. 207. Mary Glove£ ; b. July 9, 1856 ; m. Oct. 1,
1888, to Chas. E. Lowrey ; Bowlder, Col.; a physician ; her husband a
teacher. 208. Gaylord Whitfield ; b. July 7, 1859 ; m. Aug. 23, 1888,
Emma Esther Rowe ; lawyer, Minneapolis. 209. John ; b. April 23,
1862; m. Nov. 23, 1887, Henrietta Law; druggist. 210. Eunice; b.
Oct. 8, 1866.
Children of Gaylord Thompson (71) and Elsie Voorhees.
211. David V.; b. June 20, 1846; m. Nov. 12, 1874, Romelia Pel-
ton ; farmer in Mich. 212. Philip Melancthon ; b. Jan. 30, 1848;
m. Dec. 25, 1868, Flora Anne Stickney ; farmer at York, Medina Co.,
O. 213. Mary Eliza ; b. Dec. 15, 1849 ; m. Mch. 3, 1870, to Curtis
B. Abbott, a farmer at Medina. 214. Ella Maria ; b. Mch. 30, 1852 ;
m. Oct. 21, 1874, to Dwight M. Holcomb, a mechanic, in Michigan.
Children of George Thompson (72) and Susan McPherson.
215. Effleda Veronica; b. Montville, O. , Nov. 12, 1854 ; d. Steu-
benville, June 10, 1882 ; m. July 15, 1880, to Rev. Win, Fremont
Blackman, Cong. 216. Archibald Eugene ; b. Aug. 20, 1856; in. Gar-
retsville, O. , Dec. 14. 1S86. Leonora Thayer. 217. Homer George ; b.
May 13, 1859 ; d. Littleton, Col., Aug. 26, 1887 ; m. Medina, O., Oct.
4, 1883, Sadie J. Bachtell ; a fanner in Col.; his widow and child with
his parents. 218. Gaylord Harper; b. May 13, 1859; m. Denver,
Col, Oct. 4, 1885, Letitia May Beck, d. Mch.' 18, 18S8 ; Secy. Soc. for
Pro. of Abused Children, Denver. 219. Fannie Eliza ; b. May 30, 1864 j
teacher in Medina. 220. Edward Payson ; b. June 27, 1871.
Children of Homer B. Thompson and Eliza Thompson (73).
221. Ida Maria ; b. Hartford, O., June 13, 1849 ; m- Aug. IO> 1^7°>
to Seymour Peck Hart, b. June 13, 1849 ; a piano dealer. 222. Mar-
garet E. ; b. Jan. 27, 1852 ; m. Oct. 13, 1874, to F. H. Van Ness, a
farmer. 223. Jessie Marsh ; b. Nov. 4, , a stenographer and
j 54 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. [Juty>
typewriter at Cleveland. 224. Mary Hannah ; b. Dec. 13, 1858 ; m.
Oct. 10, 1877, to Rensselaer J. McDowell, dealer in sashes, blinds, etc.
Children of Aimer Harper and Eunice Thompson (74).
225. Anna Margaret ; b. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1854 ; d. Port
Byron, Mch. 28, 1866. 226. Edward Thompson : b. Sept. 28, 1857,
Sabula, Iowa ; Cong. Min.; Prof. Theol. Sem., Chicago. 227. Geo.
Philip; b. Mch. 12, 1859; d. Feb. 19, 1865. 228. Robert Almer ;
Jan. 21, 1862, LeClaire, Iowa; teacher, near Chicago. 229. Eugene
oward ; b. July 7, 1867 ; student, Oberlin.
Children of Joseph B. Clark and Fannie M. Tho?npson (78).
230. Edith Margaret; b. May 29, 1868. 231. Carl Thompson;
b. Jan. 28, 1875.
Sixth Generation.
Children of Alonzo Handley and Frances M. Thompson (102).
232. Helen or Nellie. 233. Frances ("Frank"); married.
Child of Lyell T. Mead (109) and Margaret Freeman.
234. Ida ; b. June 10, 1856 ; m. Portage City, Wis., June 10, 1878,
to Chas. Palmer.
Children of David G. Snover and JulidLA. Mead '(no).
235. Julia A.; b. Eagle, Wis., Aug. 19, 1850 ; d. Mch. 11, 1885 ;
m. North Prairie, Nov. 4, 1879, to Adelbert Bullock ; no children.
236. Charles L.; b. Aug. 7, 1855 ; m. Fort Atkinson, Wis., Nov. 10,
1882, Ida Damuth ; 2 children. 237. William L. ; b. Dec. 7, d. Dec.
15, 1869, Boscabel. 238. Nellie L. ; b. Aug. 13, 1870; d. Sept. 29,
1 S73. 239. Jessie S. ; b. Palmyra, Wis., March 2^, 1873.
Children of fa?nes Ranous and Emma f Mead ( 1 1 1 ).
240. Edward ; b. Milwaukee, June, 1855. 241. George; b. Jones-
ville, Wis., May, 1857. 242. Lyell ; b. Fond du Lac, Sept., 1866 ; d.
Ft. Howard, Wi?., Apl. 20, 1887.
Children of Wm. L. Mead (112) and Nellie Wilson.
243. La Rue; b. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 28, 1879. 244. Gilbert;
b. Dec. 25, 1881.
Children of Henry Waller mire and Frances A. Mead (113).
245. Ida E. ; b. Troy, Wis., Jan. 20, 1862. 246. Carrie ; b. Eagle,
Wis., Mch. 4, 1866. 247. Henry; b. Dec. 31, 1873.
1 89 1.] Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. 135
Children of Daniel Yandenburg and Mary E. Mead (1 14).
248. William L. ; b. Troy, Nov. 12, 1864 ; m. Champion, Mich.,
Apl. 28, 1887, Emma Williams ; 1 child. 249. Frank T. ; b. Ft. Atkin-
son, Wis., Sept. 12, 1871 ; d. Apl. 10, 1872. 250. Mary E. ; b. Eagle,
Sept. 27, 1873. 251. Charles M. ; b. July 6, 1S79.
Children 0/ Henry Espersen and Caroline M. Mead (116).
252. Harry ; b. La Crosse, June 21, 1871. 253. Frank ; b. Ft. At-
kinson, Aug. 16, 1875.
Children of Archibald L. R. Van Ness (124) and Ella V. Gifford.
254. Edward ; d. aged 6. 255. Archibald O. ; b. Jan. 17, 1871. ; d.
aged 3. 256. Walter A. ; b. Aug. 22, 1873.- 257. Lewis H. ; b. Mch.
4, 1883.
Children of Charles Sherwood and Christina Van Ness (125).
258. John H. ; b. Aug. 6, 1865. 259. Edward B. ; b. Mch. 25, 1870.
260. Walter B. ; b. Oct. S, 1872. 261. Frank L.'; b. Jan. 7, 1877.
Children of Jasper Wilhehn and Elizabeth Van Ness (128).
•262. Thursia J. (Theresa?) ; b. May 10, 1883. 263. GroverC; b.
July 17, 1885.
Children of Robert Wallace and Caroline B. Van Ness (129).
264. Robert Cleveland ; b. Nov. 19, 1882. 265. Boyd Van Ness;
b. June 22, 1884. 266. John T. ; b. Apl. 13, 18S6. 267. Geo. Fol-
som ; b. May 3, 1888.
Children of Theodore Bradford and Sarah A. Thompson (143)-
268. Celestia ("Lessie"). 269 and 270. Roy and Ralph, twins.
Children of George Brown and Francelia Thompson (i44)-
271. Harry. 272. Mabel, b. Apl., 1S82.
Children of Edward W. Thompson (145) and Ella Andrews.
273. Frederick. 274. Harold.
Children of Hmry Churchill and Ellura W. Sunderlin (147).
275. May; b. Sept. 8, 1868. 276. Alice Burr; b. Aug. 2, 1873.
Children of Pitt Hoard and Julia T. Thompson (149).
277. Charles R ; b. June 9, 1859. 278. George F. ; b. Mch. 17,
1865 ; d. Dec. 12, 1S87. 279. Lewis Normand (Norwood?) ; b. Mch.,
d. Oct. 30, 1866. 280. Florence ; b. Oct. 14, 1868 ; d. Aug. 6, 1870.
I -^6 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. (^July.
281. Julia, b. July 20, d. July 24, 1875. 282. Julia Virginia; b.
Jan. 5, 18S3.
Children of Harmon E. Van Bur en and Harriet A. Thompson (152).
283. Harriet A. 284. Clare. 285. Samuel Thompson.
Child of Egbert S. Lane and Heleti Thompson (153).
2S6. Ralph Thompson.
Children of John Perrine Thompson (154) and Fannie Briggs.
287. Jessie. 288. Max. 289. Harry.
Children of Andrew f. Robertson and Martha H Thompson (163).
290. George Cooke ; b. June, 1882. 291. James Lenox ; b. Oct.,
1884.
Child of George La Rue Thompson (164) and Rosa Field.
292. Henry La Rue.
Child of Daniel C. Chase and Emma E. Fuller (169).
293. Lulu Belle ; b. Feb. 24, 1882.
Children offohnf. Sleigh lam and Anne E. Palmer (171).
294. William H. ; b. Aug. 26, 1857 ; m. Feb. 22, 1881, Minnie
Pease ; children : Sadie, Adell, Earl, and Fred. 295. Annie Louise ;
b. June 10, 1859. 296. Elmer Ellsworth ; b. Aug., 1861 ; d. Sept. 5,
1862. 297. Mary J. ; b. Dec. 11, 1862 ; m. Oct. 20, 18S6, to Geo.
V. Kelsey ; child, Geo. Glen. 298. George Howard ; b. Oct. 20, 1864.
299. Edward A. ; b. Dec. 8, 1868. 300. Harriet Emma ; b. Oct. 15,
1872.
Children of Edward Andrews and Sarah f. Palmer (172).
301. Henry Edward ; b. Oct. 29, 1863. 302. Edward Palmer ; b.
May 9, 1834. 303. Helen Grace ; b. Mch. 22, 1876.
Children of William Pye and Lucy Cook (181).
304. William. 305. Mabel. 306. Edith. 307. Charles.
.Child of f. Edwards Marsh (190) and Elizabeth L. Thomas.
308. Harriet Thompson ; b. Nov. 8, i860 ; m. May 23, 1883,
Farmington, 111., to H. Elmer Stetson.
Children of Benjamin P. Marsh (191) and Mary F. Ayres.
309. Edward Ayres; b. Bloomington, 111., June 10, 1870; d. Feb.
17, 1880. 310. Nathan Walworth; b. Feb. 27, 1872. 311. Belle
Cothren ; b. Sept. 5, 1873. 312- Cath. Childs ; b. Mch. 3, 1879.
1 89 1.] Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schwmnan. j'ly
Child of Stephen M. Marsh (192) and Alice M. Pease.
313. Cassie May; b. Feb. 3, 1885.
Children of Enoch H. Huntling and Jane E. Hale (198).
314. Eliza Minnie ; b. July 14, 1868. 315. Harry Hale ; b. Nov.
4, 1871. 316. Samuel Enoch ; b. Sept. 5, 1873. 3l7- Mabel Clara ;
b. Nov. 18, 1878.
Children of Wm. J. Keep (199) and Frances S. Henderson.
318. Helen Elizabeth ; b. Troy, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1868. 319. Wm.
Henderson ; b. Mch. 13, d. July 2, 1870. 320. Henry; b. July 19,
1873. 321. John; b. Jan. 25, d. Jan. 28, 1888, Detroit.
Children of Geo. M. Clark and Alary E. Keep (203).
322. Alice Keep ; b. April 11, 1873, Chicago. 323. Robert Keep ;
b. July 1, 1879. 324- Geo. Houghton ; b. Aug. 7, 1880; d. April 21,
1881. 325. Margery ; b. June 26, d. Aug. 8, 1883.
Children of ' Normand S. Patlan and Fan?iy M. Keep (204).
326. Marion Keep ; b. Nov. 17, 1885. 327. Frances Caroline ; b.
Nov. 10, 1888.
Children of Philip G. Thompson (205) and Carrie Munsell.
328. Carrie Eliza ; b. Mch. 14, d. May 2, 1888. 329. Ernest E. ;
b. May 20, 1S89.
Child of Chas. E. Lowrey and Mary G. Thompson (207).
330. Anna ; b. July 18, 1889.
Child of Gaylord W. Thompson (208) and Emma Rowe.
331. Robert Rowe ; b. Aug. 24, 1889.
Child of John Thompson (209) and Henrietta Law.
332. Raymond John ; b. Apl. 5, 1889.
• Children of David V. Tho?npson (211) and Pomelia Pelton.
HI. Elsie ; b. July, 1876. 334. Nelson ; b. Feb., 1878.
Children of Philip M. Thompson (212) and Flora A. Stickney.
335. Minnie S.; b. Nov. 17, 1870. 336. Luther H., b. Nov. 27,
1874.
Chddren of Curtis B. Abbott and Mary E. Thompson (213).
337. Gaylord T.; b. Nov. 24, 1870. 338. Arthur G. ; b. Aug. 24,
XS72. 339- Carl B. ; b. Feb. 7, 1875. 340. George F.; b. Aug. 23, 1877.
1^8 Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman. (^July,
Children of Drvight M. Holcornb and Ella M. Thompson (214).
341. Raymond; b. Aug., 1875. 3+2« Henry; b. March 30, 1881.
Child of Rev. Wm. F. Blackman and Effleda V. Tho?npson (215).
343. Eugene ; Cong. Min. at Cleveland, O.
Child of Archibald E. Thompson (216) and Leonora Thayer.
344. Eugene Archibald ; b. Dec. 28, 1887.
Child of Ho?ner G. Thompson (217) and Sadie J. Bach tell.
345. George Bachtell ; b. Littleton, Col., May 26, 1880.
Children of Seymour P. Hart and Ida M. Thompson (221).
346. Harlan Homer; b. Nov. 23, 1871. 347. Helen Augusta;
b. May 5, 1875 ; d. Feb. 25, 1879. 34S. William Witter ; b. Nov. 4,
1885 ; d. Feb. 18, 1886.
Child of F. H. Van Ness and Margaret E, Thompson (222).
349. Rufus Guy ; b. Dec. 7, 1875.
Children of Rensselaer f. McDowell and Mary H. Thompson (224).
350. Ivan Esther; b. Dec. 26, 1879. 351- ^DA Merace ; b. Dec.
27, 1882. 352. Rensselaer Homer ; b. Jan. 11, 1885. 353. Freda
Margaret; b. Oct. 17, 1889.
THE THOMSONS OF ELIZABETHTOWN. N. J.
In 1664 Charles II. made to the Duke of York a grant of land from
the Connecticut River to Delaware Bay, and the latter sent Colonel
Richard Nicolls as Governor.
By deed of October 28, 1664, John Bayley, Daniel Denton, and Luke
Wasson became the owners of the land between the Raritan and
Passaic Rivers, extending inland twice its width. This land was con-
firmed to th^m and their associates, December 1, 1664, by Governor
Nicolls. There were eighty associators Settlers arrived in 1664 and
the spring of 1665. The Duke sold his rights to Berkeley and Carteret,
who sent Philip Carteret as Governor.
It was agreed, among the parties in interest, to distribute the tract in
question into first lot rights, second lot rights, and third lot rights, of
which the second were equal to double the first, and the third were equal
to treble the first. Thirty-three persons had first lot rights, twenty-six
had second lot rights, and twenty-one had third lot rights.
Thomas, Moses, and Hur Tompson were among the eighty associates.
Aaron's name does not appear among them, but he was subsequently rec-
ognized as having proprietary rights. And John Thomson was admitted
among the associates in 1699 ; perhaps his youth had excluded him at an
earlier period. Thomas had two of the third lot rights ; Moses had one
1 89 1.] Archibald Tnomson and Jacoba Schuurman. j -?q
of the second lot rights ; and Hur had one of the third lot rights. Aaron
obtained a warrant of survey, September 12, 1676, for 120 acres, in ri<*ht
of his father Thomas, and sixty acres in his own right.
Among the settlers who took the oath of allegiance to Charles II.,
Feb. 19, 1665, were Thomas Timson and Moses Tomson.
'Thomas Tomson had gone from New London, Conn., to Lynn, Mass. •
and thence, as one of thirty-five associates, to form ihe settlement of Maid-
stone, or East Hampton, Long Island, and thence to Elizabethtown. He
seems to have died between November 18, 1673, an^ September 12, 1676.
His wife was Mary . Their children were:2 Moses,3 Aaron,
4 Hur, 5Mary, who was married to John Hinds, one of the eighty asso-
ciates, and had a daughter who was married to Isaac Whitehead, Jr.,
as early as 1700. It seems that 6 John, above named, was also a son of
Thomas; and it is said that there was still another son, 7 Timothy, who
married Sarah Sallee, and lived at Connecticut Farms.
Moses is said to have removed to New England, and Hur to have
settled at Westfield, N. J. Aaron lived first at Black Horse Tavern, and
removed thence to Bottle Hill, N. J., afterwards called Madison.
Third Generation.
8 Joseph Thomson, son of Aaron, married Lydia , and removed
to a place now called Mendham. when their son Stephen was nineteen
years old (say 1739). The wife died March 24, 1749, and Joseph, July,
1749. They, with nearly all their children and three grandchildren, were
swept away with a prevailing epidemic, called lung fever.
Fourth Generation.
The children of Joseph and Lydia were : 9 Phebe ; b. Aug. 29, 1718 ;
d. Apl. 1749. "Stephen; b. June 13, 1720; d. July, 1750; married.
" Hannah : b. Dec. 3, 1721 ; d. April, 1749. "Mary ; b. Nov. 27, 1723 ;
d. "1799" (1749 ?)• I3 Aaron; b. Dec. 7, 1725; d. Apl. 1749.
14 Daniel ; b. Dec. 7, 1727 ; d. Apl. 1749 ; probably m. and had a son
Daniel. IS Desire ; b. Nov. 4, 1731 ; d. July, 1777. l6 Rachel ; b. Mch.
10, 1734 ; d. Apl. 1749. '7 David ; b. Oct.' 4, 1737; d. Dec. 28, 1821 ;
m. 1st, Rachel Bonnel, 2d, Aug. 11, 1766, Hannah Cary.
Fifth Generation.
18 Jacob, son of Stephen above named, m. Hannah Beach, dau. of
Elisha. I9 Daniel, probably the son of the Daniel first above named, died
at Mendham, about 1 834. He and his sons were tanners and shoemakers.
There were four sons and three daughters. His wife was Penelope Carnes,
who died about 1820.
The children of David Thompson and Rachel Bonnel were : " Joseph ;
b. June 20, 1759 ; d. May 6, 1791. 2I Lydia ; b. July 29, — ; d. Mch.
1, 1793. 22Lois; b. Mch. 2, 1763; d.'july 30, 1808. 23 Phebe ; b.
Dec. 29, 1764 ; d. Oct. 7, 1773.
The children of the same David Thompson, by his wife Hannah Cary,
were : 24 Mary ; b. Oct. 1, 1767. =5 Daniel ; b. June 28, 1769. * Aaron ;
b. Mch. 3, 1771. -'Rachel ; b. Feb. 8 (1773?). :8Stephen ; b. Jan. 16,
1775 ; d. June 9, 1859 '•> m- Aug. 12, 1802, Susan Harris. 29Abel ; b.
IA.O Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schnurman. [Jub'»
Aug. 14, 1777 ; d. Nov. 20, 1 80S. 30 Martha ; b. Oct. 20, — ; d. May
15, 1813, killed in church with lightning. 3I David ; b. Dec. 10, 1782 ;
d. Dec. 20, 1831. 32Rufus; b. Mch. 29, 1785; d. Nov. 18, 1818.
33 Nancy ; b. June 7, 1788 ; d. Jan. 1, 1792. 34 Phebe ; b. Oct. 11, 1790.
Sixth Generation.
«
35 Stephen Ogden Thompson, son of Jacob Thompson and Hannah
Beach, b. Dec. 17, 1775, d. May 31, 1856, was named for his grand-
father, and for Joseph Ogden, second husband of his grandmother. Was
graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1797 ; installed pastor at. Con-
necticut Farms, Nov. 16, 1802 ; m. Feb. 24, 1803, Henrietta Beach, dau.
of Major Nathaniel Beach, of Newark, N. J. In 1834 he removed to
northeastern Indiana, and there he died.
Tne children of Daniel Thompson and Penelope Carnes were :
36 Joseph, the oldest, who was never married, but died aged about 80, at
the homestead. 37 Nelly, the next, who was married in 1780 to
Schenck, and had two sons and one daughter, who married and settled
in Mendham ; also 38 Sarah, who was married, late in life, to John Smith,
and lived near Mendham, and 39 Abigail, who lived with their father as a
single woman. Another child, 40 Calvin, married Nelly Byram. He
bought a farm at Tuckerman's Plains, and built a tannery ; there he and
his wife died. 4I Luther, another child, b. 1760, d. 1855, m. in 1807
Rhuhama Chedister. It seems that there was also a 42 Daniel among the
children .of Daniel and Penelope.
The children of Stephen Thompson and Susan Harris were : 43 George
Harris ; b. Oct. 9, 1803. 44 Nancy Isabel ; b. April 10, 1806 ; d. July
15, 1889. 45 David ; b. Oct. 26, 1808. 46Robert; b. April 22, 1811 ;
lives at Mendham. 47 Alexander; b. Feb. 6, ; d. 1835, at Charles-
ton.
Seventh Generation.
There were two children of Calvin Thompson and Nelly Byram ; one
of them, 48 William, married Rebecca Voorhees.
The children of Luther Thompson and Rhuhama Chedister were :
49 Lewis A. ; b. 1809 ; m. Feb. 25, 1832, Jane Mase ( ) ; lives at
Kendallville, Ind. ; had a son, D. Headley, who volunteered for 3 years
in the War for the Union, was shot in the hip at the battle of Williams-
burg, and taken to Libby prison, and thence to Belle Isle and Salisbury ;
and at the last place he was nearly starved, and was reduced to 90 lbs.,
although he had weighed 190 when he enlisted ; he was nursed at
Trenton four weeks by his mother, and died a year after he had returned
home. Another child of Luther and Rhuhama, 5° John Byram, was born
181 1 ; m. Susan Brastow. A third was 5I Emily ; b. 18 14 ; m. to Aaron
Losey. 52 Albert, another child ; deceased. Another child, "Rebecca
Ann, was born 182 1. 54Calvin, another child, b. Dec. 3, 1823, lives at
Basking Ridge, N. J. ; hem. Sept. 14, 1844, Margaret Voorhies ; their
son, Lewis A., was sheriff of Somerset Co., and afterwards State senator ;
their daughter, Fannie E. , d. July 7, 1890. It seems that there was also a
son, 55 Joseph, who at last account was keeping a store in New York City.
[Note. — The facts above stated were derived from Rev. Dr. John B. Thompson,
now of Trenton ; Lewis A. Thompson, of Kendallville, Ind. ; Calvin Thompson, of
Basking Ridge ; and Robert Thompson, of Mendham, N. J.j
1 89 1.] Records 0/ the Reformed Dutch Church in Ntw Fork. \a\
RECORDS OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH IN THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.— Baptisms.
A°
Mar.
1734-
3*-
April 7.
(Continued from Vol.
OUDERS.
Gysbert Uitten-
Catharina
Rol,
bogard,
Hunter.
Johan nes
Aaltje Bass.
10.
Petriis Rutgers,
Helena Hooge-
landt.
Simon VanSys,
Geertruy Pel.
Johannes Minthorn,
Jannetje Elsworth.
14. Johannes Roorbach,
Sophia Grauw
Jacob li s Stoii ten-
fa urg, Margrietje
Teller.
21. Aarnoiit Webbers,
Sara Minthorn.
[527-1
28. Alexander Fetchet,
Maria Selover.
Hendrik Poultisse,
Susanna Bedlo.
Isaak Van Hoek,
Aagje Van Schayk.
Laurens Louer,
Jannetje Van Vlek-
ken.
Johannes Burger,
Jannetje Brouwer.
May 5. David Abeel, Maria
Diiyckink.
N i c o 1 a a s Antony,
Hester Roome.
8. Henry Fouler, Sara
Bosch.
12. Richard Van Dam,
Cornelia Beekman.
XXII., p. 88, of The Record.)
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Elisabet. Isaak Stoatenburg, An-
neke Dayle, s. h. v.
Johannes. Jan Bass, and Tanneke
Waldron, h. v. v., Jan
Ariaanse.
Anna. Abraham Lynsen,
C a t h a r i n a Rutgers,
s. h. v.
Johannes. Johannes Van Sys,
Jiidikje Wed. v. Joh.
Van Sys.
Hillegond. Joris Elsworth, Jan-
netje Miserol, s. h. v.
Frederik. Gerardus Beekman, Cor-
n e 1 i a Varik, h. v. van
Thomas Jeffers.
Margrietje. Tobias Stouten burg,
Marytje Ten Broek,
s. h. v.
Margrietje. Wolphert Webbers,
Ariaantje Webbers, h.v.
van Johannes Van
Norden.
Abraham. Johannes Montague,
Jiidith Selover, j. d.
Isaak. William Bond, Elisabeth
Bedlo, Wede.
Neeltje. Evert Pels, Jannetje Sam-
mon, s. h. v.
Mariniis. Samuel Bayard, Mar-
gareta Van Kortland,
s. h. v.
Abraham. Abraham Brouwer, Sara
Kimber, syn h. v.
Gerrit. Vincent Mattheus, Johan-
na Sinclaar, h. v. van
Charles Crommelvn.
Rebecca. Willem Roome, Sara
Turk, syn h. v.
Geeschasana. Albertus Ccenradus Bosch,
Anna Maria Bosch,
s. h. v.
Cornelia. William Walton Junior,
Cornelia Beekman.
s. h. v.
1 42 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [July,
A" I734-
OUDERS.
KINDERS.
Gerrit Van Wagenen,
Marytje.
Teuntje Vanden-
berg.
15-
John Thomson, Anna
Canon.
Elisabet.
23-
Jacobus Rozeveldt,
Catharina Harden-
broek.
Adolphus.
Adam Koning,
Titje.
Maria Spier.
26.
A n d r i e s Brestede,
Debora Wessels.
Elisabeth.
Johannes Hoppe,
Johannes.
Maria Van Orden.
any 2.
R e i.n i e r Burger,
Dina Van Gelder.
Teuntje.
Adolf Bras, Maria
Adolf.
Carsten.
Cornelis Webbers,
Samuel.
Cornelia Waldron.
3-
P h i 1 i p u s Goelet,
Catharina Boele.
Catharina.
12.
Isaac Somerendyk,
Coenraad.
Sara V. Norden.
'
16.
Samuel Jansse,
Jan.
Maria Van Pelt.
19. Joseph Waldron,
Aagje Heitaker.
Philip Minthorn,
Johanna Ral.
[528.]
23-
Robert Provoost,
Aclriaantje Paulse.
26. Cornelis Van Hoek,
Jenneke B6sch.
July 3. Jan Goelet, Jannetje
Kanon.
7. Casparus Blank, Mar-
retje Andriesze.
10. Pieter de Groof, Re-
becca Goederis.
Johrj Mak Everds,
Catharina v. Home.
Joseph .
Geertje.
Francyntje.
Annatje.
Jenneke.
Jannetje.
Casparus.
Rebecca.
Maria.
GETUYGEN.
Gerrit Harssin, Engeltje
Burger, s. h. v.
Pieter Hibon, Elisabet
Rook, h. v. van Wil-
lem Cambel.
Nicolas Rozeveldt Jan
zoon, Maria Brestede,
j. d.
Johannes Poel, j. m.,
Maria Koning, h. v.
van Bejam" Jerris.
John Varik, j. m., Elisa-
beth Wessels. j. d.
Job5 Webbers & z. h. v.,
Annatje Van Orden.
Victoor Heyer & h. v.,
Jannetje Van Gelder.
Gideon Carsten, & h. v.,
Catharina Kokkever.
Samuel Waldron Junior,
Cornelia La Maetere,
j.d.
Jacob Goelet, & h. v.,
Catharina Boele.
Coenraad Ten Eyk, & h.
v., Sara Van Vorst.
Jan Ten Broek, Christina
Van Pera, h. v., David
Provoost.
Benjamin Waldron, & h.
v., Marvtje Bory.
Arenout Webbers, <Sc h. v.
Sara Minthorn, Jan
Ma*n Junior, & h. v.
Anna Minthorn.
Cornelis Tibout, Annatje
Paulse, h. v. van Wil-
lem Dyks.
Pieter Bosch, Sara Bosch,
h. v. v. Gerrit Hyer.
Evert Byvank, & Catha-
ri-na .Boelen, h. v. v.
Philip Goelet.
Harmen Biissing, Caatje
Blank, j. d.
Barendt Tienhoven,
Nelli Bisset, j. d.
John v. Home, Catharina
de Hardt Wede van
Cap" Sims.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Ntw Fork. \a
A° I734. OUDERS. KINDERS.
17. Jan Blom, Rebecca Johannes.
Corsse.
21. Cornelis Volleman, Frans.
Maria Wessels,
Albartus Tiboiiwt, Margrietje.
Cornelia Bogaart.
24. John Sjoet, Margare- Alida.
ta de Riemer.
William Beekman, Adrianus.
Catharina de
Lancy.
y 31. Johannes Pauliisse, Johannes.
Catharina Van
Deiirsen.
Aug. 4. Will em S i k k el s , Robert.
Elisabeth Kiiiper.
7. Johannes Blank, Rachel.
Rachel Andries-
sen.
14. Matthew Clarkson, Levinus.
Cornelia de Peyster.
18. Hermaniis Aalstyn, Abraham.
Jannetje Willes.
Jan Hereman, Hit- Johannes,
tebel Noten.
25. Isaac Stoiitenburg, Neeltje.
Anneke Dally.
David Provoost, Joh- John,
anna Reynders.
30. Hendrik Van Nes, Catlyntje.
Johanna Berk.
[s Francis Meyers, James.
Aaltje Van Deiir-
sen.
Sept. 1. Hendrik Van der Petriis.
Hoef, Eva Slot.
Johannes Meyer, Pieter.
Elisabet Pel.
William Lee, En- William,
geltje Burger.
[529-]
8. Jan Bogaerd, Antje Jacobus.
Peek.
GETUYGEN.
Fredrik Blom & Jenneke
Blom, h. v. v. Ben-
jam" Kierstede.
Pieter Mesier, Margrietje
Wessels, h. v. v. Sam
Pel.
Elbert Haring, Elisa-
beth Bogaart.
Benjamin Sjoet, Maria
Sjoet, h. v. v. J. Bernd-
v. Deiirsen.
Johs de Lancy, Catharina
Beekman j. d.
Francois Mynar, Aaltje
Cailen.
Hendrik Sikkels, & z. h.
v. Sara Akkermans.
Pieter Loosje, & z. h. v.
Antje Andriesse.'
Hendrik Rutgers & Mar-
grietje Rozevelt, h. v.
v. Wm de Peyster.
Abraham Aalstvn & h. v.,
Margrietje Jansse.
Egbert Hereman, An-
natje Hereman j. d.
Phillip Dally, Cornelia
Van Gelder, s. h. v.
Barent Reynders & Ca-
tharina Provoost, h. v.
v. Abi,n Van Wyk.
Cornelis Van Nes, j. m.,
Anna Cathaiina Nagel,
Wede Van Johannes
Berk.
Daniel Meyers, Elisabet
Van Sent, s. h. v.
Cornelis Jurriansz, Aaltje
Van Winckel, s. h. v.
Pieter Meyer & Cornelia
Ham, u. v. v. Antony
Lamb.
Carsten Biirger, Geertruy
C o r s e n , Wede van
Thomas Richards.
Jacobus Peek & Elisabet
Bogaerd, h. v. van El-
bert Haerina:.
144 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [July,
A" 1734. OUDERS.
Nicolaas Burger, De-
bora Blydenburg.
Henriciis Haneraet,
Elisabet Wickerd.
A n d r i e s Barkeyd,
Rachel Hoist.
11. Johannes Verber, Ele
Maria Alsdorph,
Johannes Simon,
Maryke Lourens,
15. Pyramus Green,
Maria Ellem.
Hendricus ,Cavelier,
Helena Burger.
P i e t e r Brouwer,
Elisabet Quacken-
bosch.
Johan Casparus
Schiilt, Eva
Catrina Streder.
18. Johannes Roome,
Susanna Shavelje.
Samuel Ten Eyck,
Maria Gorny.
22. Evert Pels, Catharina
de Graiiw.
25. Alexander Bulsing,
Sara de Mildt.
Oct. 6. Johan Daniel Smit,
Maria Elisabet Hit-
tec
9. Isaac Bradt, Magda-
lena Smit.
Abraham Lynssen,
Catharina Rutgers.
Jan Heyer, Margrietje
Corelje.
Jan Willemse, Jan-
netje Vandewater.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Joseph. Johannes Turk & Antje
Kiiyper, syn h. v.
Christiaan. Christiaan Stouber & Ver-
onica Corcelius, u. v.
v. Willem Carolins.
Catharina, Lucas Tienhoven jong-
man, Margrietje Bar-
keyd j. dochter.
Johan Johan Deel, Elsje Hen-
Christian, nen.
Adam. Adam Lourens & Elisa-
bet Lot, h. v. v.
Jacobus Pieter Snyder.
Elsiabet. John Ellem, Elisabet El-
lem, j. d.
Aaltje. Paulus Burger and Hele-
na Turk, Wede van
Johs Burger.
Elisabet. Jacob Brouwer & Ariaantje
Webbers, h. v. van
Johannes Van Orden.
Willem. Willem Corcelius &
Anna Maria Eerensteyn,
u. v. v. Johan Willem
Altgelt.
Judith. Nicolaas Antony, Judith
Shavelje, j. d.
Coenraad. John Ten Eyck & Elisabet
Gorny, h. v. van Ed-
ward Tittle.
Theophilus. Hendrik Bogaerd & Elisa-
bet Blauvvveld, Wed: v.
Christoff: Pels.
Cornells. Cornelis Bulsing & Mar-
ritje Jansen u. v. van
Abraham Aalteyn.
Maria. Pieter Bacchus & Maria
Paulus h. v. v. Matthys
Ot.
Isaac. Frans Bradt & Dievvertje
Wessels, Wede van Isaac
Bradt.
Abraham. Joost Lynssen & Ange-
nietje Lynssen, h. v.
van Thomas Vater.
Elisabet. G e r r i t Heyer & Aagje
Bruyn, h. v. v. Barent
Boss.
Aafje. Willem Vande Water,
Aafje Ringo, syn h. v.
1 89 1. J Records 0/ the Reformed Dutch Church in New Fork. \ac
A° 1734. OUDERS.
Cornells Flamen
Aaltje Gerbrands.
13. Abraham Keteltas,
Jenneke De Hon-
neur.
Johannes Abrahamse,
Elisabet Bosch.
16. William Seckerley,
Antje Bradt.
[530.]
Nov.
Steenwyk de Riemer,
Catharina Roose-
velt.
Samuel Gulek,
Bensje Van Sichele.
KINDERS.
Cornells.
Johannes.
2 Linger.
Jenneke.
Johannes.
Petrus.
Sara.
Hendrik.
20.
Isaac Bocke, Bregje
Roome.
Brejge.
23-
John Elner, Apolony
Van Arnhem.
Maria.
27.
Evert Byvank, Maria
Cannon.
Evert.
Cornells Van Ranst,
Pieter.
3-
Geertriiy Sebring.
Christoffel Bancker,
Elisabet Hoog-
landt.
Anna.
Francis Manny, An-
Jeremias.
6.
natje Kip.
Pieter Van Benlhuy-
s e n , Margrietje
Alger.
Martinus
Henry Braisier, Abi-
Willem.
gael Parcel.
10. Joris Walgraaf, Mag- Jacob,
dalena Lesjer.
Gysbert Uyttenbog- Johannes,
aert Junior, Catha-
rina Paalding.
Abraham Kip, Sara Maria.
Vis.
13. Jacob Lory, Maria Maria.
Vander Grist.
GETUYGEN.
Sylvester Maris, Marytje
Maris, Wede van An-
dries Teller.
Abraham Boelen, Elisa-
bet De Peyster, s. h. v.,
Johannes Keteltas & Elisa-
bet Van Dyk, h. v. van
Gerrit Keteltas.
Casparus Bosch, Jannetje
Mayden, s. h. v.
Petrus Rutgers, Maria
Bradt h. v. van Jere-
mia Pamerton.
Nicolaas Roosevelt,
Rachel Roosevelt, h. v.
van Petrus Low.
Minne Van Sichele &
Jannetje Van Sichele,
u. v. v., C h r i s t o ff :
Emans.
Johannes Roome, Elisa-
bet Bensing, s. h. v.
Nicolaas Burger, Nelly
Potter, joiige dochter.
Cornells Cortregt, Hester
Cannon, s. h. v.
Pieter Van Ranst, Sara
Kierstede, s. h. v.
Abraham Lefferts &
Helena Hooglandt, h.
v. v. Peter Rutgers.
Petrus Kip & Anna Mag-
dalena Manny, j. d.
Ahasiieriis Turk, H i 1 -
legond Cuyper, s. h. v.
Willem Rooseboom &
Sara Rooseboom, h. v.
v. Jacobus Qiiik.
Hendrik Labach & Catha-
rina Lesjer, Wed. van
James Makbrok.
Abraham Paalding,
Neeltje Potter, j. d.
Samuel Kip, Margrietje
Byckman, s. h. v.
John Bartel, Margrietje
Ryke, Wede van Otto
Clerk.
IA.6 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [July,
Dec.
1734. OUDERS.
17. Johannes Groesbeek,
Anna Bayeux.
Jacob Van Deursen,
Helena Van Deur-
sen.
24. Petrus de Milt, Fem-
metje Valentyn,
Daniel Dyks, Mar-
grietje Poiilusse.
Johannes Dally, Mar-
• grietje Van Syse.
1. Johannes V re den-
fa u rg , jannetje
Woedert.
Cornells Van Vech-
t e n , Neeltje Bul-
sing.
4. Joris Lamb, Hen-
drikje Meyer.
[53I-]
Lucas Braisier,
Judith Gacherie.
8. Frans Walter, Marilis
Haen.
Petrus Lachier, Fytje
Sabrisco.
Frenk, Knegt Van
Harm : v. Gelder,
Elisabet Bicker
Mydt Van, Wed
Vef Plank.
15. Johannes Ten Broek,
Annatje Smith.
18. Pieter Canon, Ma-
ry tje Schermer-
hoorn.
Marten Bandt, Jen-
neke Buys.
Willem Vredenburgh,
Willemyntje Nack.
22. Johannes Symons,
Suster Korssen.
Wilhelmus Beekman,
Martha Mott.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Anna. James Favier, Charlotta
Bneje. s. h. v.
Abraham. Francis Myners & Cath-
a r i n a Pouwels, u. v.
v. Johs Pouwe'se.
Petrus. Johannes Van Syse, En-
geltje Appel, s. h. v.
Marytje. R o b b e r t Provoost &
Annatje Poaliisse, h. v.
v. William Dyks.
Elisabet. Abraham Braisier, Elisa-
bet Dally, s. h. v.
Jannetje. Willem Vredenburg,
CatharinaSchot, s. h. v.
Benjamin. Gysbart Gerritse, Marga-
reta Lesjer, s. h. v.
Alexander. Alexander Lam & Elisa-
bet Koning, Wed. van
Alexander Lam.
Abraham. Abraham Braisier, Elisa-
bet Dally, s. h. v.
Wilhelmus. Wilhelmus Poppelsdorf,
j. m., Catharina Hol-
sapel, j. d.
Albert. Albert Sabrisco, Rachel
Sabrisco, j. d.
Elisabet. York Richt, Knegt v. a.
c. : Van Wyk, Pry mis
Knegt, Van Abr. Van
Home.
Sara. Matthys B o r e 1 & A n -
natje Roolevelt, h. v.
Bernardiis Smit.
Jan. Jan Goelet, Jannetje
Canon, s. h. v.
Geertriiydje. Pieter Buys, Geertje Hop-
per, syn h. v.
Willem. Reynier Nack, Apolonia
Vredenburgh, h. v.
van Frederik Blom.
Johannes. Johannes Brouwer, Jen-
neke Bosch, h. v. van
Corns Van Hoek.
Christina. Johannes Beekman,
Abigael Bill, Wed. v.
Jan Stout.
1 89 1. "J Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. z ,7
Jan
A' I734- OUDERS. KINDERS.
Simon Cregier, Antje Hester.
Van Oort.
C o r n e 1 i s Bogaert, Nicolaas.
Cornelia Verduyn.
25. Abraham Ten Eyck, Elisabet.
Jelyntje Berkels.
29. JohnThurman.Elisa- Sara.
bet Wessels.
Johannes Webbers, Jacomyntje.
Annatje Van Or-
den.
A° 1735-
1. Hendrik Rutgers, Johannes.
Catharina de Pey-
ster.
Johannes Lashly, Maria.
Maria Olders.
12. Francois Marschalk, Andries.
Anneke Lynsen.
15. John Dobs, Annatje John.
Nieiikerk.
19. Daniel Gaiitier, Hillegond.
Maria Bogart.
22. Louwrens Wessels, Diewertje.
Susanna Brat.
Jacob Miller, Catha- Paulus.
lyntje Kip.
Petriis Kip, Mar
grietje Blom.
Maria.
[532-J
26. Hendrikvis Bensing, Dirk
Catharina Van
Laar.
Josiia Slidel, Elisabet Michiel.
Jansen.
GETUYGEN
Hendrik Rycke, Antje
Peek, u. v. v. J a n
Bogaert.
Jasper Farmer, Elisabet
Van Veiirden, Wed
van Aarnout Shile.
John Tevo, Bregje Pels,
syn h. v.
Frans Brat, Tryntje Wes-
sels, jonge d.
Johannes Hoppe, Maria
Van Orden, syn u. v.
^
Jacob Slover, Sara Isaak..
Vander Linde.
29. GysbertVan Deursen, Annetje.
Annatje Ten
Broek.
John Galloway, An- Thomas,
natje Lam.
1 1
Willem de Peyster, Anna
Bancker W e de van
Johannes de Peyster.
Alexander Lam, Elisabet
Staf, j. d.
Johannes Marschalk,
Marvtje Marschalk,
j. d. "
Jan Nieuwkerk, Jenneke
Brestede, s. h. v.
Willem Bogart, H i 1-
legond Van Home,
s. h. v.
Isaak Brat, Catharina
Brat, j. d.
Simon Janssen. Annatje
Vander Heyde Wede
van Paulus Miller.
Frederik Blom. Engeltje
Pels, h. v. Van Jacob
Kip.
John Lake, Catharina
Bensing, s. h. v.
Abraham Aaistyn Senior,
Marritje Jansen, syn
h. v.
Isaak Bussing, Judith
Slover, j. d.
Jacob Van Deursen,
Marytje Ten Broek
Wede van Charles
Philips.
Alexander Lam & Elisa-
b'e t Koning, Wed :
van Alexander Lam.
I4§ Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [July,
A" 1735. OUDERS. KINDERS.
Johannes Linde, Johannes.
Rachel Nights.
Hero Elles, Anna de Johannes.
Peyster.
Febr : 2. Pieter Pra Van Zant, Pieter Pra.
Sara Willemse.
N i c o 1 a a s Bayard, Margareta.
Elisabet Rynders.
Jacobus Van Norden, Jan.
Christyntje S a b-
risco.
> JohanWillem Altgelt, Johannes.
A.nna Maria Eren-
styn.
Ahassiierus Elsworth, Sara.
Maria Van Gelder.
Sim son Pels, Bregje.
Marytje Bensing.
Abraham Paalding, Jacobus.
Maria Cosyn.
Matthys Ot, Maria Jonas.
Philebene Poiilus.
Willem de Peyster, Willem.
Margrietje Roose-
velt.
Jan Van Pelt, Hil- Catharina.
1 eg o n d Boeken-
hoven.
21. Johannes Aalstyn, Marretje.
Cathaljna Rapalje.
23. Willem Peek, Fern- Sara.
metje Douwe.
Maert 2. D" Henricus Boel,
Elisabet Van
Home.
Isaac d e M i 1 1 1 ,
Michieltje Van der
Voorst.
5. Cornelis Terp, Ap-
Ionia nit den
Bogaard.
Mar : 5. Jacobus Volwyler,
Aaltje Roome.
W i 1 1 e m G i 1 b e r t,
Maria Van Sant.
Gerrit.
geboren den
14 February,
gestorven den
7 Maert.
Michiel.
Abigail.
Willem.
Arent.
GETUYGEN.
Jacob Brouwer Junior,
Sara Brouwer, h. v.
van Samuel Broek.
Abraham Boelen, Elisabet
de Peyster, s. h. v.
Johannes Van Zant,
Tryntje Bensing, s. h. v.
Barent Rynders, Judith
Bayard, Wede van Rip
Van Dam Junior.
Jan Sabrisco, Margrietje
Dorrie, s. h. v.
Johannes Jongbloet,
Maria Geerturyd
Abereshin, s. h. v.
Joris Elsworth, Jannetje
Miserol, s. h. v.
Johannes Bensing, Bregje
Pels, u. v. v. Jan Tero.
Joost Paalding, Susanna
White, syn h. v.
J o h a n Jonas Bachiis,
Marytje Corcelius, j. d.
Mattheiis Clarkson, Cor-
nelia de Peyster, s. h. v.
Johannes Boekenhoven,
Catharina Boeken-
hoven, j. d.
Abraham Alstyn, Mar-
retje jansse, z. h. v.
Johs Douwe & Elisabet
Peek, h. v. v. Hendrik
Ryke.
Gerrit Van Home, Mar-
garita Van Home.
Cornelis Vander Hoeven-
den, Styntje Schamp,
z. h. v
Isaac Stoutenburg, Nelly
Potter, j. d.
Willem Roome, Marytje
Roome, j. d.
Johannes Gilbert, Mar-
grietje Gibert, j. d.
189 i.J Two Letters from George Washington. 140
TWO LETTERS FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Communicated by Rufus King, Esq., of Yonkers, N. V.
Through the courtesy of H. E. H. Brereton, Esq., of Yonkers, the following
letters from George Washington are now published for the first time :
Princeton,
10th Oct., 1783.
Sir.
Your favor of the 25th ulto came to me by Thursday's Post. It
meets my thanks for the obliging expressions with which the information
respecting the deceased Mrs. Savage is conveyed. I think you judged
very properly in not sending the original Will of that Lady, whose death,
with the circumstances attending it, is much to be regretted.
She certainly merited very different treatment from her husband,
Doctr Savage.
If the Will is not lengthy, you would do me a favor by transmitting
me a copy of it.
The Original, you will be so good as to retain in your hands, or de-
liver it to Mrs. Washington as she passes through Baltimore on her way
to Virginia.
I am Sir,
Yr Most Ob' & Hbl Serv1'
(Signed) G. Washington.
Mr. Fran5 Moore,
Baltimore, Md.
Mount Vernon,
April 20, 1786.
Sir.
Within these few days, I have received your letter of the 12th, and
sometime ago, 1 recollect to have been favoured with another letter from
you, which, in the hurry of Business, got overlooked.
It is now more than Two years since, indirectly, I obtained a sight
of the deceased Mrs. Savage's Will. I then thought and still do think it
strange, that the Executors of this Will should never have made any offi-
cial communication thereof to the Trustees of that Lady in this country,
nor have made any direct enquiry concerning the situation of her affairs
here. These may be summed up in a few Words and will be found to
be as follows. When matters came to extremity between Doctr Savage
and his Wife, and Mr. Fairfax and myself were obliged to put the trust
bond in suit to recover her annuity, the Docf made use of all the chican-
ery of Law and Lawyers to procrastinate the Suit, which the tardiness of
our Courts (and during one period of the revolution the suspension of
Justice) but too well enabled him to effect.
It was, therefore, long before a Judgement at common law could be
obtained, and this was no sooner done than he threw the matter into
Chancery, where I am told (for I have had no share in the management
of this Business for the last Ten years, that is since I took the Command
of the American Forces) it has been ever since.
j cq Sketch of James DePeyster Ogden. [July.
I believe Mr. Fairfax has done everything in his power to bring the
matter to issue, and I have heard, I think from himself, that there is now
a probability of its happening soon. With great Truth, I can assure you
that not One Farthing of Mrs. Savage's annuity was ever paid to the
Trustees, whilst we have been obliged to advance Money out of our
own pocketts to carry on the prosecution, and whilst, moreover, from a
representation of the distress that Lady was involved in, I gave her a Bill
to the amount of ^53. sterling on James Gildart of Liverpool, which is
still due to me.
This is the best Account I am able to give you of the Trust, and you
are at full liberty to communicate the purport of it to Mrs. Innis.
I am Sir, Your Most Obed' Serv1,
(Signed) G. Washington.
Mr. Thos Brereton,
Baltimore.
SKETCH OF JAMES DePEYSTER OGDEN.
By W. Abbatt, of the New York Life Insurance Company.
James DePeyster Ogden, born in Jamaica, L. I., in 1790, was de-
scended from John Ogden, the first of his name in this country, who
resided in Stamford, Conn., about the time of its settlement. A few
years afterwards he removed to Long Island, where he acquired large
landed possessions at Hempstead, through patents, and at Southampton,
through purchase from the Indian sachem. He afterwards removed to
New Jersey, and was one of the founders of the town of Elizabeth.
In New Jersey the greater part of his descendants are to be found,
though there are others in New York and in Louisiana. Jacob Ogden,
M.D., of the fifth generation in descent from John Ogden, resided in
Jamaica, L. I., to which place his father removed in 1746. Jacob married
Mary Reade DePeyster, daughter of James DeP. and Sarah Reade, and
their only child was James DePeyster Ogden, the subject of this sketch.
He entered business life as a clerk for Van Horn &: Clarkson, of 129
Pearl Street, in 1805. Later he went to Europe for three years, as agent
for the then celebrated dry-goods firm of LeRoy, Bayard & Co., of New
York, who were concerned also in financial operations with Amsterdam.
In 1820 he began business for himself as a cotton merchant, at 24 Broad
Street, under the style. of James DePeyster Ogden & Co., and afterwards
established the branch firm of Roskell, Ogden & Co., at Liverpool. For
thirty-five years he was a*prominent figure in mercantile life. He was
President of the St. Nicholas Society ; Vice-President of the Union Club
from November 14, 1866, to May 24, 1867 ; one of the earliest members
of the Chamber of Commerce (1^20), of which he was also president from
1842 to 1845 > one of the most prominent members of the Union Safety
Committee of 1861 ; and Chairman of the great Union Defence Meeting
at the Cooper Union, January 8, 1861.
In 1845 ne was the President of the Nautilus Life Insurance Company,
which, by a change of name, became the New York Life Insurance Com-
1 89 1.] The Van Wagenen Family of Ulster Co., N. Y. \c\
pany, of which he was the first president, 1845-47. Later on he was
President ot the Alliance Mutual Insurance Company, and at the same
time of the Atlantic Dock Company. From 1845 to 1 86 1 he was the
Secretary of the Bank for Savings in Bleecker Street, and in 1 86 1 was
elected Comptroller of the Bank, which office he held until his death.
He was also President of the Shakespeare Club, of New York, for which
the only portrait of him extant was painted, by Elliot, and which is now
in possession of the Chamber of Commerce.
During his long life he was an intimate associate of the most dis-
tinguished men of the city, and a welcome guest of the most select
circles. Philip Hone, in his Diary, notes Mr. Ogden as a guest at almost
every dinner party at which he himself — a leader of society — was present.
His few remaining contemporaries agree in characterizing him as a man
of more than usual intelligence, wide experience, and great information ;
as a man of genial and polished manners. Simple in his bearing, viva-
cious in his conversation, and highly acceptable in social intercourse, as,
aside from their testimony, might well be inferred from the fact of his
presidency in so many social and business connections.
At the time of his death, which occurred in New York, April 7, 1870,
the Chamber of Commerce resolved : " That the widely-extended business
career of Mr. Ogden conferred distinction on the commercial character,
and placed before the rising generation of American merchants an example
of eminent ability, marked intelligence, and integrity."
EARLY SETTLERS OF ULSTER CO., N. Y.— THE VAN
WAGENEN FAMILY.
(Continued from Vol. XXI., p. 124, of The Record.)
Children of Jacob Aartse Van Wagenen (475) and Sara Freer
(489).
(All bp. at Kingston).
549. Maria, born at Wagendal, Dec. 17, 1 73 1 ; m. at Kingston,
Nov. 23, 1 75 1, Abraham Krom, b. at Rochester.
550. Rebecca, born at Wagendal, June 14, 1733, bp. June 17 ; m. at
Kingston, Sept. 26, 1755, Jacob, son of Isaac DuBois and
Neeltjen Roosa, bp. at Kingston, Jan. 14, 1733.
551. Benjamin, born Jan. 14, 1737, bp. Jan. 23 ; died July 2, 1 75 1 .
552. Jannetjen, born Dec. 5, 1740, bp. Dec. 26; m. Jacob, son of
Heyman Roosa and Jannetjen Freer, bp. at Kingston, Oct.
*4, 1739-
553. Johannis, born at Wagendal, Sept. 24, 1743, bp. Oct. 2 ; m. at
Kingston, Sept. 11, 1773, Rebecca Van Wagenen (568).
554. Jacob, born April 25, 1747, bp. May 3.
555. Jacob, born at Wagendal, Aug. 7, 1748, bp. Aug. 24; m. at
Kingston, Aug. 24, 1770, Margiiet Van Wagenen (667).
[July,
„. *. ****** »** °f llSler C°-
Children of Gekkit /UKT.H --
(493)- <An bp. at Kingston).
bp. at Kingston, May i, W
(AUbp.atK»^) ^ t
M-, bo,n - W^ ^ M^,, ^^ pernaps
Dec. 31. jTSfi, Jan 1 _ ^ Sara Freer.
5:9
562.
' DeC- 3I' fl7F5vert Ten-lger°and Sara Freer
lbC 5°ho°r^ Wa?endal?bp. May » 3, ^f7 Volomon Hasbrouck
-d Sa. Van W^Pe^s ohannes Schooler. ^
Pakz Feb. »7> l''^i , Wn \u°-. 21, i?43' , ,- ae
564. <*££»■ bom in H»f^bPham,sonof]anEe„andGees-
f6l ]££% ^J^nda,, bp 00, -^c" H^lsse
,67. Euzxbeth, born at 8 . pau, sor, of »«=» = g
* Kingston * >b '(fae;o) bp. at Ktngston, Dec.
Freer and H^ter ) ma„ied at
, -. *2£. born at W-^j&SV-V^^ ,8,
nVbo alNewPata, Nov. 7. 1756. d at King.
" roraan°d-Matia'v^\vaSenen(549).
1 89 1.] The Van Wagenen Family 6/ Lister Co., N. F. [53
Children 0/ Aart Van Wagenen (480) and Rebecca Freer (495 .
(All bp. at Kingston except Aart).
572. Maria, born at Wagendal, June 16. 175c. bp. June 17 ; married
at Kingston, Oct. 31, 1770, Fredrick Wood, born at Marble-
town.
573. John Aartse, born July :_. 1752 . Aug. 9: married at
Kingston, Nov. 2. 1780, Elizabeth Van Wagenen (669).
574. Petrus. born Feb. 9. 1755, bp. March 9 ; died Nov. 14, [814 ;
married Rachel, daughter of John Louw and Sara Rosa, bp.
at Rochester, Oct. 16, 1757. •
575. Rebecca, born May 18, 1758. bp. June iS : married Louis, son
of Wessel Brodhead and Catherine Dubois, bp. at Rochester,
March 26, 1754.
576. Aart, born June 12. 1763. bp. at Rochester, Sept. iS : married
March 8, 1792, Elizabeth Wood.
577. Gerrit, born May 4. 1766, bp. June 3 : married at Marbletown,
Aug. 23, 1798, Eva Shaw, bp. at Marbletown, Oct. 8, 1780,
daughter of John Shaw and Maria Roosa.
57S. Jannetjen, born July S, 1769. bp. Aug. i-.
Children of Petrus Van Wagenen (482) and Sara Louie.
579. Jonathan, bp. at Kingston. March 20, 1761 : died April 15,
1 Si 1, and is buried at New Paltz, married Hester, daughter
of John Johnson and Rebecca Wood, bp. at Wawarsing,
June 28, 1767: died Dec. 30, 1S32 ; she married 2nd, May
12, 1 Si 9. Tobias Hasbrouck.
550. Daniel, bp. at Kingston, Feb. 26, 1763 : married Catharine
Louw, probably the daughter of Solomon Louw and Judikje
Van Vliet, bp. at New Paltz, Jan. 25. 1- -
551. Ezekiel, bp. at Kingston, Sept. 30, 1764 : married at Wawar-
sing, Jan. 5, 17SS, Rachel Jansen, Johnson) daughter of
John Johnson and Rebecca Wood, born Jan. 6, 176S, bp. at
Wawarsing. Feb. 1.
552. Levi, bp. at Kingston, Aug. 12, 1766, married Elizabeth Louw.
553. Catharine, born May 6, 176S. bp. at New Paltz, May 25. mar-
ried Thomas Owens.
554. Lucas, born June 14, 1770, bp. at New Paltz. Aug. 10; died
Jan. 13. 1805, and buried at New Pakz : married Cornelia
Merkel, who died March 21, 1S19, and- is buried at New
Paltz, daughter of Benjamin Merkel and Annatje Osterhout,
bp. at Wawarsing. Dec. 26, 1775.
555. Maria, bp. at New Paltz, Sept. :-. :~~2 : married Simon Rosa.
586. Aart, bp. at New Paltz. Oct. 29. 1775; ::ed July 13. _
married at New Paltz. April 24. 1S00. Man- Freer, born June
3, 1 78 1, bp. at New Paltz, July S, daughter of Jonas Freer
and Magdalina Bavier.
587. Sara, born May 1 -. 1778, bp. at New Paltz. July 5. married at
Marbletown. Dec. 13, 1797, Jacobus, or James Rosa, said to
have moved to Ohio about 1S16.
j n The Van Wagenen Family of Ulster Co., N. V. . [July,
Children of Jacob Van Wagenen (483) and Helena Van de Bogaard.
588. Evert, bp. at Poughkeepsie, Oct. 7, 1740.
589. Franz, bp. at Poughkeepsie, June 9, 1742.
Children of Nicholas Van Wagenen (484) and Hester de Graaf
590. Hellegontie, bp. at Rhinebeck, Aug. 22, 1736; married at
Poughkeepsie, Nov. 21, 1754, Johannes Bush.
591. Evert, bp. at Poughkeepsie, Way 9, 1739.
592. Elizabeth, bp. at Poughkeepsie, Feb. 15, 1742 ; married
Joseph Hegeman, had child Sarah, bp. at Poughkeepsie, Jan.
22, 1769.
593. John, born 1744, died April 20, 1823, aged 79 ; married Sarah
Flagler, born May 15, 1 75 1 , died Sept. 15, 1S25 ; both buried
at Pleasant Valley, N. Y.
594. Maria, married John Allen at Poughkeepsie, 1753, Oct. 17.
595. Sarah, married Johannes Van Enden.
596. Nicholas, born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., May 15, 1748; died
Jan. 7, 181 1 ; married at Rhinebeck, Nov. 25, 1770, Elsie
Ostrander, born Oct. 20, 1743, died April 26, 1832, daughter
of John Ostrander and Elizabeth Van Benschoten. Nicholas
and Elsie are both buried at Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co.,
N. Y.
Children <?/"Sara Van Wagenen (485) and Teunis Van Vliet.
597. Gerret, bp. at Fishkill, April 5, 1735.
598. Nellv, bp. at Kingston. Jan. 16, 1737.
599. Evert, bp. at Fishkill, May 27, 1739.
600. Arie, bp. at Fishkill, Oct. 11, 174 1.
601. Teunis (Denys) bp. at Poughkeepsie, Feb. 2, 1 74 5-
Children of Gerrit Van Wagenen (486) and Sara De Graaf
602. Evert, bp. at Fishkill, Aug. 13, 1738.
603. Maria, bp. at Kingston, Jan. 25, 1 74 1 .
604. Gerrebrand, bp. at Poughkeepsie, May 2, 1742-3.
Child of M'arretjen VanfJ Wagenen (488) and Abraham De Graaf
605. Jan, bp. at Poughkeepsie, June 8, 1742.
Children 0/" Solomon Van Wagenen (513) and Hanna Bruyn.
606. Simon, born Aug. 29, 1750, bp. at Kingston, Sept. 23 ; mar-
ried Oct. 27, 1774, Elizabeth Louw, born Feb. 16, 1755,
daughter of Jacobus Louw and Elizabeth De Witt.
607. Tryntje, bp. at Kingston, June 7, 1752 ; married Abraham Sah-
ler, son of Abraham Sahler and Elizabeth Dubois..
608. Jacobus Bruyn, bp. at Marbletown, Aug. 27, 1754.
( To be continued.)
1 89 1.] Notes and Queries. jrr
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Proceedings of the Society. — Meetings have been once a month since April.
At the meeting in May, several new members were elected. The Rev. Arthur Went-
worth Hamilton Eaton read an interesting paper upon the history, traditions, and social
life of Halifax, a town well known as an important naval and military station, and
one with characteristics peculiar to itself. In June, the Rev. ■ Morgan Dix, D.U ,
delivered an excellent address upon the late John Jacob Astor. We have the pleasure
of presenting this address to our readers as the leading article. In June, Gen.
Charles W. Darling read a paper on the life and times of Horatio Seymour, twice
Governor of New York, once in the piping times of peace and once in the earlier
days of the civil war. Doubtless many persons can recall the trying circumstances of
those days, and the wisdom, firmness, and devotion to duty with which Governor Sey-
mour met them. Since that time a new generation has grown up to which those
times are history ; and the history of them is best written by men who, like General
Darling, knew them thoroughly, and can write about them without prejudice or pas-
sion. A committee was appointed at the April meeting to complete the subscrip-
tions to the Statue of Columbus, to be erected under the auspices of the Society in
the Central Park in October, 1892, consisting of the President, General Wilson,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, William R. Grace, James J. Goodwin, Clarence W. Bowen,
and Thomas L, James.
Mr. Berthold Fernow kindly sends the three following specimens of the lite-
rary curiosities which he often discovers in his investigations of the Albany Rec-
ords. The first of them he calls
A Lesson in Indian Geography and Diplomacy.
Extraordinary Meeting of the Magistrates of Albany Septbr 7, 16S3. Two
Cayougas and one Susquehanna Indians were asked in the Courthouse about the
location of the Susquehanna River which Wm Ilaig (?) and James Graham, agents
of Governor Pen, intend to buy. They report as follows : It is a day's journey from
the Maquas (Mohawk) Castle to the lake, which is the head of the Susquehanna
River and then it takes 10 days to reach the Susquehanna Castle.
From the Oneydas, it is a journey of \\ day to the Kil, which runs into the Sus-
quehanna, one day down this Kil to the river and 7 days more on the river to the
above Castle.
Half a days journey by land and one day by water brings the traveller from
the Onnondagas to the river and then 6 days on the river to the Castle.
The Cayougas have to march \\ days and travel by water one day before reach-
ing the river and then go 5 days down the same.
Three days land travel and two days water journey bring you from the first
Castle of the Sinnekas to the Susquehanna, on which you have to travel for nve
days before reaching the Castle, in all ten days of easy travel, mostly in canoes.
The Indians inquired, why they were so closely questioned about the Susque-
hanna River and whether people intended to come there to live. Being in return
asked, whether that would be agreeable to them, they answered, they would be
very glad, if white people would settle in their country, for it would be nearer, than
this place (Albany) and more convenient to them to carry their packs of peltries
to by water, while now they had to carry them to this place on their backs. They
added, that then people from here should settle there, which would please them very
much, for that would give to the Indians a chance to trade there. (Original in
Dutch.)
How They Settled Cases of Assault and Battery at Albany in Olden
Times.
Whereas William Waddington some time since, Hend. Dow goeing to buy
Backon of him, did in the bargaining the same, as Mr. Dow says, beat him and tear
his neckcloth I have and do hereby acknowledge to have Recd of the said William
Waddington by the hands of Leit Collins ye sum of five shillings in full Satisfaction
for ye same, witness my hand this 6 day of June A° D° 1707 HENDRICK Dow
The Campaign Outfit of a Colonial Lieutenant, 1711.
One Scarlet Shute (suit)
jc5 Notes and Queries. [July-
One Gray do mounted with Gold
One Trunk containing
Three hats, one new
Scarlet Cioath, lining, buttons, hair &c. for a Shute
Sixteen pairs of Stockings
Two papers of Inkpowder
Ten Books
One writing Book
Eight Shirts
Ten Neckcloths
Four Shirts 2 of them for his burriall
Six new Handcarchiefs Silk
Two pairs of new Gloves
Two do old
White Lining of an old coat
Colored do
One old Belt
Five and one half yds Holland Lace
One old Wig
One old Pillow & Fieldbed
One blue Coat lined black
One gray do
Two Watch coats one grey & red
One gray Coat & westcoat
One Red Coat
One Bearskin
One pr of Shoes
Eight lbs of Soap
One new Gun
Two old do
One pr of Pistols
One Scarlet Coat & Breeches
One Sash
One Bayonet & Cartouchbox
Four pairs of Stockings
Three pairs of Tongs (?)
Two pairs of Shoes
One Knife and Fork
One Blanket
One Quilt
One Nightgown
One Spoon
One Gimlet
Three Razors
One Cap
One Breastplate
Four pairs of Buckles
One Lookingglass
One Shoebrush
One Tablecloath
One do Towell
Four Napkins
Two woven Night caps
The University of Groeningen, Holland, published some years ago a cata-
logue of all the students who had inscribed their names on the Secretary's books
from the day of opening in 1615 to 1773. The names given here show where have
been the European homes of many families, who have been more or less prominent
in New York history. The date preceding each name is that of entering at the
University. B. FERNOW.
1632. Gerh. Gerhardi, of Groeningen.
1633. Rutger Putnam, of Gora.
1633. Johs. ten Broeck, of Zutphen.
1891.] Notes and Queries. icy
1633. Henr. Lansinck, of Geldern.
1634. Jobs, de Vries, of Rossem, Geldern.
1634. Casparus Hartrauft, Zittan.
1634. Phil. Becman, Muehlhausen.
1635. Arnoldus de Witt, Dircksland.
1635. Henricus Beecman, Holstein.
1636. Lambert Beecman, Groeningen.
1638. Johs. Petr. Steinmets, Heppenheim.
1638. Fred van Nessen, Mecklenburg, Palatinate.
1640. Corn. Schenck, Hague.
1641. Theo. Draper, Groeningen.
1642. Christ. Tappe, Teiklenburg.
1644. Phil, van Dam, Hague.
1645. Wm. Bored, Middleburgh.
1047. Johs. Hardenbergh, Groeningen.
1650. Jacobus Swart, Groeningen.
165 1. Johs. Rees, Amsterdam.
1651. Johs. Le Roy, Picardy
1651. Lud. de Witt, Cleve.
165 1 . Auth. van Voorst, Utrecht.
1652. Joh. van Sanden, Groeningen.
1653. Winoldus Bruyns, Deventer.
1654. Arnold Gandsfoort, Groeningen Land.
1654. Johs. Visscher, a Knight of Curland.
1655. Johs. Schoonhoven, Amsterdam.
1657. Adrian van Dyck, Rotterdam.
1658. Jacques de Pottere, Emden.
1658. Petr. Quackenbosch, Leyden.
1659. Wm. van der Menten, Cologne.
1660. Jerry Lepin. Sedan.
1660. Herm. van der Vechte, Frisia.
1660. Petrus van Marken, Enchuysen.
1664. Jacob Abrichs, Groeningen Land.
1664. Henr. van Hoeven. Westphalia.
1664. Marcus Pels, Danzig.
1664. Simon de Vaux, France.
1665. Herm. ten Broeck, Steenwyck.
In the Record for July, 1887, "Genealogist" asks for information as to the
parent ige of Hon. Peter Vander Voort, who was sheriff of Kings County in 17S6,
and member of the Assembly for a number of years thereafter. He was the son of
Michael Vander Voort and Margaret Stockholm, who were married at Flatbush,
October 4th, 1749 ; he was baptized at that place, April 8th, 1751. Letters of
administration were granted upon his estate, December 4th, 1798, as appear from
the Surrogate's Records in Kings County. The will of his father, Michael, dated
March 1 6 1 h , 17S1, and probated August loth, 1804, is recorded in the Surrogate's
office, Kings County, Liber 1, folio 413. It will be observed that the will was exe-
cuted during the Revolution ; a reference therein to Peter, " if he shall be within the
King's lines," is noticeable. The will of his mother, probated December 7th, 1814,
and recorded in Liber 2, folio 263, mentions her granddaughter, Margaret, wife of
Hon. Elisha W. King. Michael was the eldest son of Peter, " of Bruckland, Yeo-
man," whose will was probated April 7th, 1761, and recorded in the New York
Surrogate's office, Liber 22, folio 487. This will mentions four sons, namely:
Michael, to whom he left a farm at Bedford ; Cornelius, who married Maiken Bennett,
December 9th, 1752, at Flatbush, to whom he also left a farm ; Peter, who married
Sarah Ledyard, and was a merchant in New York ; and Paul, who married Gitty (or
Charity) Polhamus, 1 tecember 6lh, 1766, and was a carpenter at Bedford. These
two last-named sons were left a house in Queen Street, New York City. The grand-
father of Sheriff Vander Voort was doubtless the son of Michael Pauluszen Vander
Voort, who married Christiana Schamp, baptized at New Amsterdam, September
iSth, 1678, and died prior to 1713, at which time his widow joined in a deed of the
Schamp farm to Barent Kool, recorded in Liber 4, folio Sg, of Conveyances, Register's
office, Kings County. She was still living at the time of taking the census in Brook-
ic& Notes and Queries. [July.
lyn. 1738. Finally, the common ancestor of the family in this country, as given in
Bergen's "Early Settlers of Kings County," was Michael Pauluszen Vander Voort, who
emigrated from Dermonde in Flanders, and settled in Brooklyn. He married at New
Amsterdam, November 18th, 1640, Maria, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelya, and
had a number of children baptized at New Amsterdam, among whom were the fol-
lowing named sons :
Michael, baptized January 19th, 1642.
Paulus, January 3d, 1649.
Jan, " December nth, 1650.
Hendrick, " August 22d, 1655.
Joris, " October iSth, 1656.
I am not able to establish with absolute certainty from which of these sons the
sheriff descended, the records of the Kings County Dutch Churches being quite
incomplete. Most probably, however, it was from Paulus.
THEODORE M. liANTA.
The one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the battle of Lexington was com-
memorated by the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution in old
Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday, April 19th, by a special service at four in
the afternoon. The blue and buff standard of the Society was carried for the first
time in procession on this occasion. This was the second annual service of the
Society. The services were conducted by the Chaplain, the Rev. George YYoolsey
Hodge, assisted by the Rev. Brockholst Morgan, Chaplain of the New York Society,
and the following clergymen, members of the Society : the Rev. Alfred Langdon
Elwyn, Rev. Benjamin Johnson Douglass, and the Rev. George Livingston Bishop.
The church was beautifully decorated with flags and the national colors draped in
tasteful profusion. These with the crowded congregation, the patriotic hymns and
eloquent sermon by the Rev. S. D. McConnell, of St. Stephen's, made this an im-
pressive occasion. There were many prominent persons present, among others repre-
sentatives of the recently organized Society of Colonial Dames. A printed pamphlet
contained the service, during which the following hymns were sung : the processional
301, before the sermon 309, as a closing hymn 303. Dr. McConnell's sermon, which
we presume will be printed, was from the text, 1st Epistle of Peter, 2d chap., 16th
and 17th verses: "As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God. Honor all men, Love the brotherhood, Fear God,
Honor the King." The Committee of Arrangements was composed of the following
members of the Society : George Cuthbert Gillespie, chairman ; William John Potts,
George Steptoe Washington, William Wayne, Jr., Dr. Thomas Hewson Bradford,
Caldwell K. Biddle, A. Nelson Lewis, William Macpherson Hornor, William Henry
Ashhurst, Hobart Miller. w. J. p.
THE new standard of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolu-
tion, which was first carried in procession on April the 19th, in Philadelphia, at the
Second Annual Service of the Pennsylvania Society, has now been formally adopted
by the General Socieiy. It was designed by Mr. George Cuthbert Gillespie, of Phil-
adelphia. The design is similar to that of the French tricolor, excepting that the
sections are buff, blue, and buff. The centre contains the obverse of the medallion
decoration of the Society, viz.: the figure of a Continental soldier, legend 1775, sur-
rounded with thirteen stars, surmounted by the eagle. The staff is crowned with an
eagle in the same position. This beautiful flag is of rich silk, and is four feet wide
and six feet ten inches in length. w. f. p.
Information will be thankfully received concerning the ancestry in either male
or female line of any of the following-named families. Hints as to where I may look
for the information will be acceptable :
Samuel Bleaker (l)leecker), of Bucks County, Pa., whose daughter, Judith,
married, 1753, Joseph Ellicott.
Sarah Brown, Bucks County, who married, 1775, Andrew Ellicott.
Ann Bye, Bucks County, who married, 1731, Andrew Ellicott.
John Randall, born 1746, perhaps of Roxbury or Stratford, lived in Dutchess
County, N. V.
Elizabeth Bugby, who married the above-named John Randall.
Hannah Carman, who married, 1727, Parent Van Wyck
1 8 9 1 . ] Notes and Queries. I r g
Sarah Field, who married, 1697, Jonathan Whitehead, Queens County, N. Y.
Mary Griswold, who married, 168.4, Joseph Conally, of Springfield.
David Bates, whose daughter, Sarah, born 1762, married, 17S2, Nathaniel Doug-
lass, of N. Y.
Phebe Toppen, who married about T730, the above-named David Bates, Morris-
town, N. J.
Esther Reed, who married, 1755, David Douglass, of Hanover Neck, N. Y.
9 East 54th Street, New York. Charles b. curtis.
Noticing in the last number of the Record, references to undoubted Centen-
arians, I take the liberty of calling your attention to a well-known case in this
vicinity. I was pastor for twenty-five years of the Reformed Dutch Church of Mill-
stone. N. j. There is living there a lady named Mrs. Sarah Van Nostrand,
who will be 102 years old on Sept. 6, 1891, if she lives to that date. The baptismal
record of the church of Millstone has this recotd (p. 272): Oct. nth, 1789. Myn-
dert Van Arsdalen ende Zyne huyse Vrow Caty hebben hav Kent Latin Dopen,
Genamt. Sarah, het Kent is Geboren den 6 Septembre, 17S9. Her birthday has
been celebrated for a number of years past. She married a Mr. John Van Nos-
trand, and became a member of the church of Millstone in Oct. 1S36. (See my
Millstone Centennial Memorial. 18C6, p. 106.) She now lives with a daughter
over seventy years of age, and has numerous children and grandchildren, I wrote
an account of her for the New Brunswick and Louisville papers on the occasion of
her centenary anniversary. I visited her on her one hundredth birthday.
E. T. CORWIN
Mr. Richard Wynkoop sends the following note to his article on the Thompson
and Schuurman Families, which was received too late to be inserted in its proper
place.
[At page 67, Vol. XXII. of the Record, read: Helen Maria, oldest child of Rev.
F. B. Thomson, is the wife of Rev. Matthew Newkirk Oliver, now of Tappan,
m. Aug. 15, 1S71. Her surviving half sister Emma settled in Switzerland, and
is the widow of Rev. Louis Germond, of the Swiss Reformed Church. She is an
assistant in the Belleville Mission, Paris.
It seems that there was no George Thomson (62) ; and that Archibald (63) was
the lawyer.
Lyall T. Adams (107), was not in the naval service with Farragut, but his brother,
La Rue P. A. (ioS) was. J
The New York History Company has in preparation, a Memorial History
of the City of New York, as editor of which it has been fortunate enough to
secure the services of our esteemed President, Gen. James Grant Wilson. It is to
be in four royal octavo volumes of about 600 pages each, illustrated with not less
than 1000 portraits, views of historic houses, scenes, statues, tombs, maps, and
facsimiles of autographs and ancient documents relating to the history of New York .
as far back as 1626. Many well-known writers and scholars will be contributors to
its pages, and it is hoped and believed that the work will be accurate, complete and
trustworthy. It is to be sold by subscription only. The first volume is to be ready,
if possible, by October next, and the others will follow at intervals of six months.
The decision of the Prussian College of Heraldry ^Record, Vol. XXII. ,
p. 107] that the particle "van" used in Dutch names is not a sign of nobility, is
perfectly correct ; it was simply used to designate the town, village, or neighborhood
from which a Hollander comes : with Belgian-Xetherland families it was often differ-
ent, designating not a place but a quality or title, and thus nobility. This has
always been well understood among the sensible democratic descendants of the Dutch
in New York. G. w. van s.
Mr. George W. Van Siclen requests us to direct attention to the fact that the
Year Book of the Holland Society for 1890 was given by him and not by a name-
sake of his to whom it is credited in the April Record, p. 114. We regret the
mistake and can only say, liumanum est errarc; the pens of scribes and the types
of printers do sometimes play strange tricks, and even the vigilance of editors cannot
always discover them.
160 Obituaries. [July,
OBITUARIES.
Hon. Rufus King, a distinguished lawyer and prominent cilizen of Cincinnati,
died at his home in that city, March 25, 1891, aged seventy-three. Mr. King's an-
cestry may be briefly given as follows :
Richard1 King, his great grandfather, born about 1718, died March 27, 1775, was
of Scarborough, Maine, where he successfully engaged in business, and became a
large land owner. In 1745 he was appointed by Governor Shirley as Commissary of
the troops destined for Annapolis Royal. Richard King was twice married : first,
in 1753, to Isabella, daughter of Samuel Bragdon, of York, Me.; second, in 1762,
to Mary, daughter of Samuel and Dorcas (Bragdon) Black, of the same place.
Hon. Rufus2 King, LL.D., eldest son of Richard, was born at Scarborough,
March 24, 1755, and died in New York City, April 29, 1S29. He was graduated at
Harvard in 1777, served in the ^Var of the Revolution, was Member of Congress from
Massachusetts, United States Senator from New York State, and for eight years
Minister to England. He married Mary, only daughter of John Alsop, Esq., of New
York City, Member of the Continental Congress and President of the New York
Chamber of Commerce.
Edward * King, fourth son of Rufus preceding, was born in New York, March
13> !795- He emigrated to Ohio in 1815, and resided in Chillicothe until 1831, when
he removed to Cincinnati. He was an able lawyer, and was several times elected a
member of the Ohio Legislature. He was also Speaker of the House for two sessions.
Edward King married Sarah, eldest daughter of Hon. Thomas Worthington, member
of the Federal Convention, and Governor of the State of Ohio from 1814-1S.
Rufus 4 King, of Cincinnati, the subject of this memoir, was the elder son of
Edward King just mentioned, and was born in Chillicothe, May 30, 1817. He
received his early education in the grammar school at Gambier, Ohio, and afterward
entered Kenyon College. From thence he was transferred to Harvard University,
where he was graduated. He then entered the Harvard Law School and completed
his legal studies.
Mr. King returned to Ohio in 1841, and was admitted to the Cincinnati Bar. In
1843 he married Margaret, daughter of Dr. Landon C. Rives, of Cincinnati. Mr.
King was a gentleman of the highest character in private and public life, and took
an active interest in all that related to the welfare of the city in which he lived. He
filled many positions of responsibility. In 1851 he was a Trustee of the Public
Schools of Cincinnati, and President of the Board until 1866. He was largely instru-
mental in founding the Cincinnati Public Library, and was for many years President
of its Board of Managers. He was also one of the founders and supporters of the
Cincinnati Law Library. In 1871 Mr. King was elected President of the Board of
Directors of the University of Cincinnati. He was also Dean of the Law School, as
well as one of the founders of the city's Art Museum. In 188S Mr. King wrote a
" History of Ohio," in the American Commonwealth series — an interesting and val-
uable account of the State's progress.
Mr. King's tastes inclining him to the practice of his profession and the quiet of
home life, he declined many positions of public prominence, among which was Gov-
ernor Brough's offer of a Judgeship of the Supreme Court of Ohio, made vacant by
the resignation of Judge Gholson.
Mr. King was a member of the law firm of King, Thompson and Richards, and
continued in active practice until within a few years past. His wife survives him,
but he leaves no children. His will, which was admitted to probate in April, makes
bequests to various religious and educational bodies amounting, in the aggregate, to
more than one hundred thousand dollars.
DENNING Duer died in his 79th year, at his house, Ilawkshurst, at Weehawken,
New Jersey, on Tuesday, March 10, 1S91, and was buried on the T51I1 in the parish
churchyard at Jamaica, Long Island. Mr. Duer was the oldest male representative
of a royalist family of standing and repute which settled in Antigua in Cromwell's
time. His great grandfather, John Duer, was a gentleman of fortune, who lived
partly in Antigua, partly in England. He married twice. By his first marriage he
had one son, Edward, a captain in the British army, who died unmarried. His second
wife was Frances, the daughter of Sir Frederick Frye, a general officer who had
1 89 1.] Book Notices. 161
a command in the West Indies. The eldest son by this marriage was Rowland, a
clergyman, who inherited the estates in Antigua. The second son, William, married
Katharine, the second daughter of William Alexander, Lord Stirling. His eldest
son, WTilliam Alexander Duer, was the father of Denning Duer. It is unnecessary
to go again over the ground which has been traversed by Miss Jay in her account of the
" Descendants of James Alexander." The latter part of the pedigree will be found
set forth, with all necessary detail, in the Record, Vol. XII., p. 14-26, III. Den-
ning Duer was educated at the Albany Academy, and at Dr. Allen's school at Rhine-
beck. At an early age he entered the banking-house of Prime, Ward & King, with
which he continued connected all his life, and of which he became the head after the
death of his father-in-law, Mr. King. Mr. Duer stood high in the confidence of Mr.
Chase, when the latter gentleman was Secretary of the Treasury, and to Mr. Duer's
valuable advice and assistance the Secretary was indebted, if not for the conception,
at least for the successful carrying out of the system of national banks. Mr. Duer
never sought nor accepted public office ; he was contented if his skill and wisdom in
matters of finance could be made useful, as they were in those trying times of the
civil war. Bearing a name honored and respected in New York for three generations,
Mr. Duer lived and died a Christian gentleman.
Among the well-known New Yorkers who have died since April are : Mrs. Mary
Mason Jones, eldest daughter of John Mason, and widow of Isaac Jones, in her
90th year ; Mrs. Catharine A. Bleecker, widow of Anthony J. Bleecker, who
died on the 17th of May, aged 96 ; Dr. Fordyce Barker, May 30th ; and on
May 29th, at his home in Stockbridge, Mass., Dr. Charles A. Joy, Emeritus Pro-
fessor of Chemistry in Columbia College, who was appointed to his chair in the
college in 1858.
BOOK NOTICES.
A Contribution towards a Genealogy of all Torreys in America. Com-
piled by D. Torrey. 8vo. pp. 146. lxi. Detroit, John F. Eby, 1890.
This pedigree begins in England in 1535, and gives the male line of the descend-
ants of William Torrey, of Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire (d. 1557), to Abner
Torrey, of Quincy, Mass., 1767-1809, and then traces the descendants of Abner Tor-
rey in both the male and female lines. The author defends this plan upon the ground
that children combine characteristics of all the lineages that have been blended in
their parents, which is true enough and well worth considering ; but his inference, or
suggestion, that a family name is only one of many hundred names to which men are
naturally entitled can hardly be accepted. When genealogy was less of a science
than it is at present, there was a question about combining patrilinear and matrilinear
descents in the same pedigree ; but the experience of later genealogists has led them
to think it wiser to treat of every family by itself. The other system leads to prolix-
ity and confusion. Of course the study of ancestresses and alliances is useful and leads
sometimes to surprising results, as may be seen by the study of such books as
Burke's " Royal Families." Mr. Torrey, however, seems to have overcome the diffi-
culties of his system. He is concise and clear.
Memoranda concerning the Family of Bispham in Great Britain and
the United States of America. Compiled and edited by William Bispham, of
New York. Svo. pp. 34S. 100 copies, No. 16. Privately printed. New York, 1890.
Certainly not only a love for family history but the means of gratifying it must be
increasing in America if a private person have the industry to write and the ability to
print so elaborate and sumptuous a volume as the one before us. No labor seems to
have been spared in the compilation, and no expense in the mechanical execution of
Mr. Bispham's book. Mr. Bispham's wish was to connect an ordinary American
pedigree, beginning with the settler in the colonies, with his English ancestors,
What pains he took, what adventures and what discouragements he met with until he
found the records of which he was in search in the hands of an unsuspected cousin,
he has told us in a well-written and entertaining preface, from which we will not
quote, as Mr. Bispham has been good enough to give the book itself to the Society,
and we recommend our members to read it themselves.
1 52 Donations to the Library. [Jub'> ^ai.
Michael Hillegas and his Descendants. By his great granddaughter, Emma
St. Clair Whitney. Privately printed. Pottsville, 1S91.
This is a well-written life of a Philadelphian of distinction, who took an active
part in the events which preceded and followed the establishment of the United States,
as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania from 1765 to 1775. and after-
wards as Provincial Treasurer and Treasurer of the United States, under the title for
a year or two of Continental Treasurer, continuously from July 29, 1775, to Septem-
ber 11, 1789. Besides a Life of Mr. Hillegas, remarkable for its completeness and
conciseness, and pleasant to read in these days of many words, the book contains
accounts of his descendants for five generations, appendices of letters and other doc-
uments, and an excellent index ; telling all that need be told, and condensed into a
volume of 118 pages.
The Monumental Inscriptions on the Church and Churchyard of St.
Mary's, Lewisham. Edited by Herbert Charles Kirby, and Leland Lewis
Duncan. Svo. pp. 86. 200 copies privately printed. Lee Charles North, 1889.
This is the second of the publications of the Lewisham Antiquarian Society, the
first being the Registers of St. Margaret's, Lee. The Society has in contemplation
the publication of all the wills relating to the county of Kent, from 13S4 to 1559,
and of such portions of the Registers of St. Mary's, Lewisham, as were saved from
the fire of 1S30, which destroyed nearly all the older registers. Many of the entries
in them of the 17th and iSth centuries have now no other record than those printed
in this volume from the inscriptions. There is an index of names, another of places,
and a third, unusual perhaps, but useful, of the arms upon the monuments.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
Mrs. J. H. Lazarus. City Hall Recorder, 1S16-1820. 124 numbers — Historical
Collections, Vol. I. New York Historical Society, New York, 1809 — Six Years
Residence in Hudson Bay, by Joseph Robson. London, 1752 — French Constitu-
tion of 1793. New York, 1817 — Travel; in England, France and Spain, by Morde-
cai M. Noah. New York, 1845 — Colden's Memoir, by Cadwallader D. Colden.
New York, 1825 — Caraccas, by F. Depons. New York, 1806, and ten pamphlets.
Gen. James Grant Wilson. Two National Epochs, by the Rev. Cornelius B.
Smith. New York, 1891 — Report of the Trustees of the Astor Library. New
York, 1890 — Examination of the Subject of Street Cleaning in New York City.
N. Y. , 1 891 — Education of Teachers in the State of New York, by Jerome Allen,
Ph.D. New York, 1891 — Report of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. New York, 1891.
Frederick E. Westbrook. The Old Senate House. Kingston, by the donor.
Kingston, N. Y., 1883.
James Mortimer Montgomery. Constitution and Membership Roll National
Society Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York. New York, 1891.
Frederick Diodate Thompson. Memorial of General Hancock, U. S. Service
Institution. New York, 1891 — Roll of Membership Union Club, 1891 — Life of
Admiral Coffin, by Thos. C. Amory. Boston, 1886, and ten pamphlets.
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THE NEW YORK
Genealogical aito JSiograjjjjieal Becora.
Vol. XXII. NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1S91. No. 4.
EXPLORATIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COAST PRE-
VIOUS TO THE VOYAGE OF HENRY HUDSON.*
One of the earliest Greek dreams, prominent in the classic literature,
was that of a beautiful island in the ocean at the far west. Perhaps,
nevertheless, we have been accustomed to think of the conception too
much as a dream, a piece of pure imagination ; for it is absolutely certain,
as Pliny and Strabo prove, that bold Phenician navigators passed far
beyond the Pillars of Hercules into the vast Atlantic, discovering and
naming the Canary Islands, pushing their observations far and wide.
Possibly, like Columbus on his first voyage, they sailed over tranquil seas,
smooth as the rivers in Spain, and through ambient air, soft as the air of
Andalusia in spring, until they reached the Edenic Cuba, and thus fur-
nished the foundation of that Greek conception of an exquisitely fair isle,
the home of the immortals, an Elysium on whose happy, fragrant shores
the shrilly-breathing Zephyrus was ever piping for the refreshment of
weary souls.
In the fifteenth century the islands in the west formed the object of
many a voyage, but even in 1306 Marino Sanuto laid down the Canaries
anew, while Bethencourt found them in 1402. The Azores and the
Madeira Islands appear in the chart of Pizigani in 1367, and the sail-
ors of Prince Henry the Navigator went to the Azores, the Isles of the
Hawks, in 143 1, as preparatory to those voyages which, beginning with
the rediscovery of the Cape Verde Islands in 1460, were destined to pre-
pare the way for the circumnavigation of Africa, and thus open the way
to the Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Long before this, however,
the Spaniards were credited with the establishment of colonies in the
western ocean, and on the globe of Martin Behaim, 1842, may be seen
the legend crediting Spanish bishops with the founding of seven cities in
a distant island in the year 734. In 1498 De Ayala, the Spanish ambas-
sador in England, reported to his sovereign that the City of Bristol had
for seven years sent out ships in search of the Island of Brazil and the
Seven Cities, which were commonly laid down in maps, together with the
great island of "Antillia," by many supposed to refer to the American
Continent.
In the time of Columbus enterprise was generally active, and men
everywhere were eager to realize the prediction of Seneca, who declared
that the Ultima Thule (the extreme bounds of the earth) would in due
time be reached. But Columbus would win something more than
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York, furnished by the courtesy of General Wilson. The seven portraits which ap-
pear in this chapter are examples of some four hundred that will be included in this
important work.
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beautiful islands. He aimed at a continent, and would reach the
eastern border of Asia by sailing west, in accordance with the early
philosophers, who had accepted the spherical form of the earth, not
dreaming that, instead of a few
islands, scattered like gems in the
ocean, a mighty continent barred
the way. Dominated by the an-
tique notions of the classic writers,
Columbus, after encountering and
overcoming every discouragement,
finally sailed towards the golden
West, finding the voyage a pleasant
excursion, interrupted only by the
occasional fears of the sailors, lest
the light breeze might prevent their
return to Spain by blowing all the
time one way. At a given point of
the voyage Columbus met with an
experience and made a decision that
perhaps determined the destiny of
North America. October 7, 1492,
Martin Pinson saw flocks of parrots
flying southwest, and argued that
the birds were returning to land,
which must lie in that direction. He
accordingly advised the Admiral to
change the course of the ship. Co-
lumbus realized the force of the
argument, and knew the signifi-
cance of the flights of birds, the hawk having piloted the Portuguese to
the Azores. He was now sailing straight for the coast of North Caro-
lina, and must inevitably have discovered our continent, but the parrots
were accepted as guides, the course was changed to the southwest, and
in due time the Island of San Salvador rose before their expectant eyes.
All his efforts, therefore, after this memorable voyage, were devoted to
the West Indies, and in the fond belief that he had reached fair Cathay.
Consequently John Cabot was left to discover North America at least one
year before Columbus sighted the southern portion of the western con-
tinent. Even then Columbus held that South America was a part of
India, and he finally died in ignorance of the fact that he had reached
a new world.
His error proved a most fortunate one for the English-speaking
people ; since, if he had continued on the western course, the Carolinas
would have risen to view, and the splendors and riches of the Antilles
might have remained unknown long enough for Spanish enterprise to
establish itself upon the Atlantic coast. This done, the magnificent Hud-
son would have become the objective point of Spanish enterprise, and a
Spanish fortress and castle would to-day look down from the Weehawken
Heights, the island of New York yielding itself up as the site of a Span-
ish city.
The mistake of Columbus, however, was supplemented by what, per-
haps, may properly be called a series of blunders, all of them more or less
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fortunate, or at least in the interest of a type of civilization very unlike
that of Spain, especially as expanded and interpreted in Central and
South America. It is. therefore, to the series of nautical adventures fol-
lowing the age of Columbus, and extending down to the voyage of Henry
Hudson, the Englishman, in 1609, tnat tms chapter is mainly devoted,
showing how this entire region was preserved from permanent occupa-
tion by Europeans, until
it was colonized by the
Walloons under the
Dutch, who providen-
tially prepared the way
for the English.
First, however, it may
be interesting to glance
at voyages made during
the Middle Ages, consid-
ering whether they had
any possible connection
with the region now oc-
cupied by the City of New
York.
That Northmen
visited the shores of North
America no reasonable
inquirer any longer
doubts. Even Mr.
George Bancroft, who for
about half a century cast
grave reflections upon the
voyages of the Northmen,
and inspired disbelief in
many quarters, finally
abandoned all allusion to
the subject, and subse-
quently explained that in
throwing discredit upon the Icelandic narratives he had fallen into error.*
The probability now seems to be that the Irish had become acquainted
with a great land at the west, and gave it the name of ''Greenland,"
which name was simply applied by Eric the Red to a separate region,
when he went to the country now known as Greenland in the year 985.
The next year Biarne Heriulfsson, following Eric, was blown upon the
North Atlantic coast, and in the year 1000-1 Leif, son of Eric, went in
quest of the land seen by Biarne, reaching what is generally recognized
as New England. Others followed in 1002 and 1005, while from 1006
to 1009 Thorfinn Karlsefne visited the same region, then known as
" Vinland the Good," and made a serious but abortive effort to found a
colony. Freydis, daughter of Eric the Red, visited New England in 1010
to 1012. Vague accounts in the Icelandic chronicles tell of a visit of one
Are Marson to a region called White Man's Land {Hvitrammanaland) in
9S3, antedating Eric's appearance in Greenland. We also hear of Biorn
Asbrandson in 999, and of the voyage of Gudlaugson in 1027. Certain
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geographical fragments refer to Bishop Eric, of Greenland, as searching
for Wineland in 1121, while in 1357 a small Icelandic ship visited
" Markland." the present Nova Scotia. The voyages of Asbrandson and
of Gudlaugson are generally viewed as standing connected with a region
extending from New England to Florida, known as White Man's Land,
or Ireland the Great. In these accounts there is found no definite allusion
to the region of the Hudson, though Karlsefne's explorations may have
extended some distance southwesterly from Rhode Island ; while later
adventurers, who came southward and followed the course of Are Marson,
who was discovered in the country by Asbrandson, must have sailed
along our shores. Still no record of such a visit now remains, which is
not at all singular, since many a voyager went by, both before and after-
wards, with the same failure to signalize the event for the information of
posterity. " They had
no poet and they died."
Turning to the voy-
ages of the Welsh, who,
some think, reached
the western continent
about the year 1 170,
led by Madoc, Prince
of Wales, there is the
same failure to connect
them with this region.
Catlin, who visited the
White or M a n d a n
Indians, supposes that
the Welsh sailed down
the coast to the Gulf
of Mexico and as-
cended the Mississippi ;
although there is just
as much reason to hold,
if the Mandans were
their descendants, that
they entered the con-
tinent and found their way westward from the region of Massachusetts
or New York. The latter, however, might be favored, for the reason
that our noble river forms to-day the most popular and certainly the
most splendid gateway to the far West.
The voyages of the Zeno brothers, who are believed by most competent
critics to have reached America about the close of the fourteenth century,
and who left a chart, first published in 1558, show a country called
" Drogeo, " a vast region which stretched far to the south, whose inhabit-
ants were clothed in skins, and subsisted by hunting, being armed with
bows and arrows, and living in a state of war. The description would
apply to our part of the coast. At this period the Red Indians had
come from the west, and dispersed the original inhabitants, known to
the Northmen as Skraellings. The red man on this coast was an invader
and conqueror, not the original proprietor of the land. In a very brief
time, however, he forgot his own traditions and indulged in the belief,
that he was the first holder of this region, which was deeded to him by
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the Great Father in fee simple ; and it was in this belief that, in turn,
the simple savage conveyed vast tracts of territory to the white man, in
consideration of trinkets and fire-water.
So far as can be discovered, the Skraelling was the first proprietor,
and bv the Skraelling is meant what is called the "Glacial Man," who
appeared on this coast when the great ice-sheet that once covered the
highlands of America was melting and sliding into the sea. Geologically
the island of New York is one of the souvenirs or wrecks of that ice-period
which shaped the character of the entire coast ; being, for a large part,
simply a mass of ice-ground rock covered with the gravelly deposits of
the glaciers. At the time when
Nature was engaged in putting the
finishing touches to this rude,
Titanic, and wonderful work, the
glacial man appeared. Then this
ancient island, afterwards known
as Manhattan, received its first
inhabitant. Whence did this mys-
terious man come ? No one can
say, though it seems to be satis-
factorily established that, at the
period referred to, there were two
peoples of similar character and
habits living on opposite sides of
the Atlantic, dwelling on the es-
tuaries, rivers, and fiords, and ob-
taining the means of subsistence
amid similar dangers and priva-
tions. The evidences of the so-
called glacial man are found at the
present time in the gravels of the
Trenton River, of New Jersey,
consisting of stone implements that
seem to have been lost while engaged in hunting and fishing. With
the disappearance of the ice and the moderation of the climate, these
men of the ice-period spread along the Atlantic coast from Labrador to
Florida, their descendants being the modern Eskimo and Greenlander,
whose ancestors were driven northward by the red man when he con-
quered the country. The immediate region of the Hudson has thus far
afforded none of the stone implements that abound at Trenton, yet it
may be regarded as beyond question that the first inhabitant of New
York was a glacial man, ruder than the rudest red savage, and in appear-
ance resembling the present Eskimo. In the time of Zeno, the glacial
man had been succeeded by the red man, who showed a superior condi-
tion under the influence of the improved climate, and " Drogeo " was
the name of the region which included the territory of New York.
We must turn, however, to note what, in this immediate connection,
may be styled the course of maritime enterprise, the first voyage of
interest in connection with our subject being the voyage said to have
been made by Sebastian Cabot along the coast from Newfoundland in
15 15. Upon this initial voyage many Englishmen based their claim,
* The vignette above is a faithful representation of the Florentine portrait.
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but in the present state of knowledge the expedition itself is considered
debatable by some. That John and Sebastian Cabot saw the continent
in 149S, or one year before Columbus saw South America, can hardly be
doubted: but convincing. testimony is required respecting the alleged
voyage down this part of the coast in 151 5. If we accept the voyage
as a fact, this expedition, whose objective point was Newfoundland,
may be regarded as the first known English expedition to these shores.
Before this time, however, the Portuguese were very active, and had
run the coast from Florida to Cape Breton, evidence of which they left in
the " Cantino " Map, and in the Ptolemy of 1 5 1 3. This was in continu-
ation of the enterprise of the Costas, or " Cortereals, " who made voyages
to the north in 1 500-1-2. The expedition made along our coast at this
period left no memorials now known, save the maps to which allusion
has been made. As early as 1520 the Spaniards began to navigate to the
north from the West Indies, and in that year Aylion reached the coast of
Carolina, on an expedition to capture slaves, though Martyr speaks of the
country he visited as "near the Baccaloos. " a term applied at that time
to the region far south of Newfoundland. Nevertheless, in the year 1524.
we reach a voyage of deep interest, for in this year the Bay of New York
comes distinctly into view, Europeans being known for the first time to
pass the Narrows. Reference is here made to the voyage of the celebrated
Italian, Giovanni da Verrazano, in the service of Francis I. of France.
This celebrated navigator is supposed to have been the son of Piero
Andrea di Bernardo de Verrazano and Fiametta Capella. He was born
at Val di Greve, a little village near Florence, in the year 1485. At one
time a portrait of Verrazano adorned the walls of a gallery in Florence.
This portrait was engraved for the well-known work entitled, "Uomini
Illustri Toscani." A medal was also struck in his honor, but no copy
of it can now be found. The family nevertheless appears to have main-
tained a definite place in local history, the last known Florentine repre-
sentative being the Cavaliere Andrea da Verrazano, who died in 181 9.
Verrazano, the great explorer of the American coast, seems to have
had a large experience as a sailor upon the Mediterranean, eventually
entering the service of Francis I. of France, as a privateer or corsair, in
which calling Columbus and many of the old navigators shone conspicu-
ously, the profession at that time being quite creditable, even though
dangerous. In 1523 Verrazano was engaged in capturing Spanish ships
that brought the treasures of Montezuma from Mexico. In the following-
year he made his voyage to America, and one statement makes it appear
that, subsequently, he was captured by the Spaniards and executed.
Ramusio tells us that on a second voyage he was made a prisoner by the
savages, and was roasted and eaten in the sight of his comrades. The
light which we have at the present time does not suffice for the settlement
of the question relating to the manner of his death, but we have over-
whelming evidence of the reality of his voyage in 1524, which is vouched
for by invaluable maps and relations contained in a lengthy Letter
addressed to his employer, Francis I. * * * *
Next, however, the reader's attention must be directed to the voyage
of Estevan Gomez, who followed Verrazano in 1525. This adventurer
was a Portuguese in the service of Spain. While Verrazano was abroad
on his voyage, Gomez attended the nautical congress at Badajos, in Spain,
when, we are told, Sebastian Cabot was present. At this congress Portu-
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gal opposed the plan presented for an expedition to the Indies, being very
jealous, as usual, of the power of Spain. The differences of the two
powers were nevertheless reconciled, and the King of Spain, with the aid
of several merchants, fitted out a caravel and put Gomez in command.
Gomez, if he did not stand as high as some men of his time, was a navi-
gator of experience. In 1519 he sailed as chief pilot with Magellan, but
incurred much odium by leaving him
in the Straits which now bear Magel-
lan's name, and returning to Spain.
Peter Martyr, who gives an account
of the congress at Badajos, says : "It
is decreed that one Stephanus Gomez,
himself a skilful navigator, shall go
another way, whereby, between Bac-
calaos and Florida, long since our
countries, he says he will find out a
way to Cataia. Only one ship, a
caravel, is furnished for him," and,
the chronicler continues, '"he will
have no other thing in charge than to
search out whether any passage to the
great Chan from among the various
windings and vast compassing of this
our ocean is to be found." Of the
voyage out from Spain few particulars
are now available, though the account
of the return was penned by Martyr
subsequently to November 13, 1525,
and probably before the close of the
year. The voyage was, upon the
whole, a short one. Martyr, however, says that he returned at the end of
"ten months," while Navarrete states that he sailed in February. Gal-
vano tells us that, having failed to obtain the command of an expedition
to the Moluccas, he went on the coast of the New World in search of a
passage to India, observing that "the Earl Don Fernando de Andrada,
and the doctor Beltram, and the merchant Christopher de Serro, fur-
nished a galleon for him, and he went from Groine, in Gallicia, to the
Island of Cuba, and to the Cape of Florida, sailing by day because he
knew not the land." Galvano tells us, likewise, that he passed the Bay
of Angra and the river Enseada, and so "went over to the other side,
reaching Cape Razo in 46° N. " This means that he sailed up from
Florida past the coast of Maine. Martyr, writing after the return of
Gomez, indulges in a strain of ridicule, and says: "He, neither finding
the Straight, nor Cataia, which he promised, returned back in ten months
after his departure" ; and continues : " I always thought and supposed
this worthy man's fancies to be vain and frivolous. Yet he wanted not
* Sir Francis Drake, the chief of the English navigators of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, and the first captain who circumnavigated the globe in a single voyage,
was born in 1546, near Tavistock in Devonshire, and died on board his own ship off
Puerto liello, Venezuela, January 2S, 1 596, and was buried at sea. The Admiral was
the boldest among the band of heroes who battled and beat the so-called invincible
Spanish Armada. EDITOR.
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for suffrages and voices in his favor and defense." Still, Martyr admits
that " he found pleasant and profitable countries agreeable with our par-
allels and degrees of the pole. " * * * *
As the reverential old navigators were often in the habit of marking
their progress in connection with prominent days in the Calendar, it is
reasonable to suppose that the Hudson was discovered by Gomez on the
festival of St. Anthony, which falls on January 17. Navarrete indeed
says that he left Spain in February, but the accounts are more or less con-
fusing. If Martyr, who is more particular, is correct, and Gomez was
absent "ten months.''' he must have sailed early in December, which
would have brought him to our coast on the Festival of the celebrated
Theban Father. At this time the navigator would have seen the country
at its worst. Evidently he made no extended exploration of the river, as
in January it is often loaded with ice and snow.
Gomez was laughed at by the courtiers, and had no disposition to
return to the American coast. The legend on the Map of Ribeiro
proclaiming his discovery, that is, exploration of the 'coast, declared
that here were to be found " many trees and fruits similar to those in
Spain," but Martyr contemptuously exclaims, " What need have we of
these things that are common to all the people of Europe ? To the
South ! to the South ! " he ejaculates, " for the great and exceeding
riches of the Equinoxial," adding, " They that seek riches must not go
to the cold and frozen North." Gems, spices, and gold were the things
coveted by Spain, and our temperate region, with its blustering winters,
did not attract natures accustomed to soft. Andalusian air.
After the voyage of Gomez, which, failing to find a route to the
Indies, excited ridicule, there is nothing of special interest to empha-
size in this connection until 1537. In the meanwhile the English were
active, and in 1527 two ships, commanded by Captain John Rut, were
in American waters. It has been claimed that he sailed the entire
coast, often sending men on land " to search the state of these unknown
regions," and it has been affirmed that this is " the first occasion of
which we are distinctly informed that Englishmen landed on the coast."
Also that, " after Cabot, this was the second English expedition which
sailed along the entire east coast of the United States, as far as South
Carolina." Granting, however, that the expedition of Rut actually
extended down the American coast, there is no proof that he gave any
attention to the locality of the Hudson. * * * *
The next navigator whose work touched our part of the coast was
Jehan or Jean Allefonsce, who, in 1542, came to Canada as pilot of
Roberval, and gained considerable knowledge of the North Atlantic
shores. This hardy sailor was a native of Saintonge, a village of
Cognac, France. After following the sea for a period of more than forty
years and escaping many dangers, he finally received a mortal wound
while engaged in a naval battle in the harbor of Rochelle. Melin Saint-
Gelais wrote a sonnet in his honor during the year 1559. It can
hardly be doubted that Allefonsce himself ran down the coast in one
of the ships of Roberval, probably when returning to France.
With the aid of Paulin Secalart he wrote a cosmographical descrip-
tion, which included Canada and the West Indies with the American
coast. Very recognizable descriptions are given as far down as Cape
Cod and the islands to the southward. The manuscript also possesses
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interest in connection with the region of the Hudson, though farther
south the description becomes still more available. * * * *
Reaching 1552, we have the testimony of the Spanish historian,
Lopez de Gomara, who describes the coast, beginning at Newfound-
land, and proceeding southward, making the distance eight hundred
and seventy leagues to the Cape of Florida. He says, from " Rio
Fondo " to
Gamos," the
are seventy
'thence to "
' K.10 de los
Stag River,
leagues, and
Cabo Santa
Maria," fifty leagues, with
forty more to "Cabo Bajo "
Baxos), or Cape Cod ; and
" thence to Rio San Anton
[Antonio] they reckon more
than a hundred leagues,"
while " from the Rio San
Anton are eighty leagues
along the shore of a gulf to
Cabo de Arenas [Sandy
Hook], which is in nearly
39° N/'
It is also worthy of notice
in this connection that prior
to 1562 the French had
visited this region ; as Ri-
bault writes in that year that
they undertook to go north-
ward from Florida "and
view the coast vntil xl
degrees of the eleuation,"
where " our pilots and some
others " had been before.
There are no particulars, however, to be obtained in connection with
these visits of the French.
It has been already stated (page 170) that it would be impossible
to say when the first Englishman visited this region ; yet in the year
1567-8, evidence goes to prove that one David Ingram, an English-
man, set ashore with a number of companions in the Gulf of Mexico,
journeyed on foot across the country to the River St. John, New
Brunswick, and sailed thence for France. Possibly he was half crazed
by his sufferings, yet there can be little doubt that he crossed the con-
tinent and passed through the State of New York, traveling on the
Indian paths and crossing many broad rivers. If the story is true,
Ingram is the first Englishman known to have visited these parts.
In April, 1583, Captain Carlile wrote out propositions for a voyage
" to the latitude of fortie degrees or thereabouts, of that hithermost
part of America," and in 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert had this region
under consideration, Hakluyt observing on the margin of his " Divers
Voyages" that this was "the Countrey of Sir H. G. Uoyage." Hays
says in his account of the region that " God hath reserved the same to
be reduced unto Christian civility by the English nation " : and also
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that "Godwill raise him up an instrument to effect the same." All
this is very interesting in connection with English claims and enter-
prise. In the same year the French were active on the coast, and one
Stephen Bellinger, of Rouen, sailed to Cape Breton, and thence coasted
southwesterly six hundred miles, "and had trafique with the people in
tenne or twelve places." Thus the French were moving from both the
north and the south towards this central region ; but we cannot say how
far south Bellinger actually came, as there is nothing to indicate his
mode of computation. It is not improbable that he knew and profited
by the rich fur trade of the Hudson.
In Kunstman's " Atlas " there is a map bearing date of 1592, in
which Sandy Hook is represented as " C. de las Arenas." It was the
work of an Englishman, as the inscription reads, " Thomas Hood
made this platte, 1592." This may be the result of some visit made to
the Hudson at this period by the English colonists of Virginia.
In 1598 and thereabout we find it asserted that the Dutch were upon
the ground, for in the year 1644 the Committee of the Dutch West
India Company, known as the General Board of Accounts, to whom
numerous documents and papers had been entrusted, made a lengthy
report, which they begin as follows : " New Netherland, situated in
America, between English Virginia and New England, extending from
the South [Delaware] river, lying 34/4° to Cape Malabar, in the
latitude of 4T/I/2°, was first frequented by the inhabitants of this country
in the year 1598, and especially by those of the Greenland Company,
but without making any fixed settlements, only as a shelter in winter.
For which they built on the North [Hudson] and the South [Dela-
ware] rivers there two little forts against the attacks of the Indians."
Mr. Brodhead says that the statement " needs confirmation." Still it is
somewhat easy to understand why a statement of this kind coming from
such a body should require confirmation ; but the Committee had no
reason for misstating the facts, and ought to have been accurately in-
formed. Yet if confirmation is insisted upon, we are prepared to give
it, such as it is, from an English, and in fact an unexpected, source.
Our authority is no less a personage than Governor Bradford, of Ply-
mouth Colony, whose office and inclinations led him to challenge all un-
founded claims that might be put forth by the Dutch. Nevertheless,
writing to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the father of New England coloniza-
tion, who likewise was hostile to the pretensions of the Dutch. Bradford
says, under date of June 15, 1627, that the Dutch on the Hudson
"have used trading there this six or seven-and-twenty years, but have
begun to plant of later time, and now have reduced their trade to some
order." Bradford lived in Holland in 1608, and had abundant oppor-
tunities for knowing everything relating to Dutch enterprise. It is per-
fectly well known that the Plymouth Colonists of 1620 intended to settle
at the Hudson, though circumstances directed them to the spot pointed
out by Dremer in 16 19, when in the service of Gorges. Thus, about
seventeen years before the Committee of i 644 reported, Governor
Bradford, an unwilling, but every way competent and candid, witness,
carried back the Dutch occupancy under the Greenland Company to
the year 1600. Besides, on the English map of the voyage of Lin-
schoten, 1598, there is a dotted trail from the latitude of the Hudson.
40° north to the St. Lawrence, showing that the route was one known
i89i.]
Explorations of tin: North American Coast.
16
and traveled at that time. It is evident, from a variety of consid-
erations, that both the Dutch and French resorted to the Hudson at
this period to engage in the trade. Linschoten was one of the best
informed of Dutch writers, and probably understood the significance of
the representation upon his map. The probability is that this route
was known a long time before, and that it may be indicated by Cartier,
who, when in Canada, 1534, was told of a route by the way of the river
Richelieu to a country a month's distance southward, supposed to pro-
duce cinnamon and cloves, which Cartier thought the route to Florida.
Champlain, writing in Canada, says that in the year previous certain
French who lived on the Hudson were taken prisoners when out on an
expedition against the northern Indians, and were liberated on the
ground that they were friends of the French in Canada. This agrees
with the report of the Labadists,
who taught that a French child,
Jean Yigne, was born here in
1 6 14. Evidently the French had
been on the ground in force for
some years, and were able to make
expeditions against the savages.
Very likely the French were there
quite as early as the Hollander^.
There seems to be, however,
another curious piece of confirma-
tion, which comes from the writ-
ings of the celebrated Father Isaac
Jogues, who was in New Amster-
dam during the year 1646. In a
letter written on August 3d of
that year, he says that the Dutch
were here " about fifty years "
before, while they began to settle
permanently only about " twenty
years " since. The latter state-
ment is sufficiently correct, as 1623
was the year when a permanent
colony was established by the
Dutch. The former statement
carries us hack to the date of the " Greenland Company."
It is also interesting to note that the " Remonstrance," describing
the occupation of the country by the Dutch, says : " East, of the North
River, beginning at Cape Cod, named in 1600 by our own people New
Holland whereof also possession was taken, if we are correctly informed,
by the erection of their High Mightinesses' arms), down to within six
leagues of the North River." This again recognizes the Dutch as
here in the year given by Bradford.
* Sir Martin Frobisher, the famous English navigator, was born in Doncaster,
Yorkshire, about 1536, and died in Plymouth, November 7. I5<)4- After exploring
different parts of the American coast, and entering the strait that bears his name,
he accompanied his friend Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies, taking part on board
the Triumph in the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 15S8, for which he was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth. EDITOR.
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1 74 Stephen Thome, /he Loyalist, and his Descendants. [Oct..
The period under consideration was a period of reconnoissance, one
that offered some romantic incident, but more of disappointment and
mortification. Here was a site for one of the noblest cities in the
world, but the^voyager was blind. The river offered no route to the
gorgeous Indies, and Verrazano had little inclination to test its swift
tide. Gomez, in the short January days of 1525, had no desire to
ascend, for when his ship met the drift ice tossing on the cold, swirling
stream, he thought of Anthony in his desolate retreat on the Red Sea,
put the river under his charge, and sailed away in search of happier
shores. Sailors of other nationalities, doubtless, ascended the river ;
but finding it simply a river, they took what peltries they could get,
and, like Gomez, turned the whole region over to the care of the soli-
tary Saint, who for nearly a century stood connected with its neglect.
Much remained to be done before steps could be taken with regard to
colonization. The initial work, however, was inaugurated by the sturdy
Englishman, Henry Hudson, and in a succeeding chapter the proud
Spanish caravel disappears, while the curtain rises upon the memorable
voyage of the quaint Dutch fly-boat, the Half- Moon.
STEPHEN THORNE, THE LOYALIST, AND HIS
' DESCENDANTS.
By the Rev. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton.
So far as I know no Loyalist family has ever before been completely
traced in the pages of the Record, or indeed has ever had its full genealogy
published. I have the more satisfaction, therefore, in giving here an
extended record of the descendants of the Loyalist, Stephen Thorne.
Joseph Thorne3, b. 22, 7, 1682 (Joseph2 and Mary Bowne, William1),
moved from Flushing, L. 1., to Cow Neck, afterwards Manhasset, in the
town of Hempstead. He m. Catherine Smith, a widow, and made his
will August 1, 1 75 1. The will was recorded in 1752, and he is called
Joseph Thorne, Esquire. In it he mentions his wife, all his children,
his grandson Joseph, son of his daughter Catherine and her husband,
Joseph Cornell, and his granddaughter, Catherine, daughter of his
deceased son, Richard. His son Stephen gets all his lands, buildings,
orchards, etc., and is to pay all legacies. His negro wench, Hagar, he
leaves to his daughter Margaret, "if she wants her." His executors are
Caleb Cornell, his son-in-law, and his "trusty friend," Richard Thome4
of Great Neck (Richard3, William2), father of Major Richard Thorne5,
who fought on the Whig side in the Revolution. Witnesses were Samuel
Latham, Henry Sands, and Benjamin Smith.
Children.
Margaret4, \ baptised in St. George's Parish, Hempstead, 21 Feby.,
Stephen4, \ 1725.*
* This is among the earliest existing records of the parish. " Capt." Joseph
Thorne was a warden and vestryman of the parish from 171S to 1727 ; Richard
Thorne, from 1749 to 1757 ; William Thorne, from 1765 to 1767.
1 89 1.] Stephen Tliorne, the Loyalist, and his Descendants.
/3
Thomas4, m. in 1738 Mary Dodge, and had nine children, of whom
Thomas5 m. (1) Abigail, daughter of Henry and Martha Cornell Sands,
(2) Sarah Onderdonk.
Catherine4.
Richard4, m. 10 June, 1738, Mary Hyatt, and had at least one child,
Catherine. Of these daughters, Margaret was perhaps never married.
Catherine was m. to Caleb Cornell, and had children : Richardson,
Stephen, Caleb* Catherine, Aspinwall, the latter m. (1) Jane Mitchell, (2)
Priscilla Mitchell. This family is among the richest and most important
of the Thorne families of that period. Thomas Thorne4 left tw slaves.
FOURTH AND FIFTH GENERATIONS.
Stephen4, b. 1717, bap. in St. George's Parish, Hempstead, 21 Feb'y.,
1725 (Joseph3, Joseph2, William1), m. (1) in Hempstead, 27 July, 1746,
Sybil Sands4, (Edward', John2 and Sybil Ray, James1). She was second
cousin once removed to Comfort Sands5, b. 26 Feb'y., 1748 (John4,
John3, John2, James1), d. 22 Sept., 1834, a rich merchant of New York,
very prominent during the War of the Revolution, a member of the
Provincial Congress, who began his career as a clerk in Stephen Thome's
office. Sybil Sands had a sister Deborah, who was second wife of Edward
Mott, and died Sept. 1, 1762, aged 26. Their mother was Mary Cornell,
b. Sept. 3, 1727. Sybil d. at Cow Neck, March 1, 1759, "aged 32,"
and is buried in the Sands' burying-ground at Cow Neck. It is possible
that Stephen Thorne did business in New York City, as well as in Long
Island, but of this I am not sure. In a memorial to Sir Guy Carleton,
signed by over six hundred persons some time before the evacuation of
New York, appear the names of four Thornes — Stephen, William,
Joseph and Melancthon.*
These memorialists state that having been deprived of very valuable
landed estates and considerable personal property without the lines, and
being also obliged to abandon their possessions in this city on account of
their loyalty to their sovereign, and attachment to the British Constitution,
and seeing no prospect of their being reinstated, " they have determined
to remove with their families and settle in His Majesty's Province of Nova
Scotia on the terms which they understood were held out equally to all
His Majesty's subjects." Undoubtedly many, perhaps all of these persons
went to Nova Scotia in 1783. Joseph, William, and, I believe, Melancthon
Thorne became granteesf of Parr Town, now St. John, New Brunswick ;
Stephen Thorne settled in Granville, Annapolis county, Nova Scotia,
not far from the historic fort and the ancient town, known in French
times as Port Royal. A description of his lands will no d'oubt be found
in the Annapolis records.
Children by first Marriage.
Edward5, b. 10 August, 1747, bap. 29 July, 175^.
Stephen5, born 1750, bap. 29 July, 1756.
Joseph5, bap. 29 July, 1756.
* Sabine says that twenty-three Thornes of Queen's Co., N. V., acknowledged
allegiance to Britain, in October, 1776.
f I think these men must all have returned to New York, for I have never been
able to find any trace of their descendants in New Brunswick.
I 76 Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, and his Descendants. [Oct. ,
Philip5, bap. 3 March, 1759.
Richard, bap. 3 March, 1759.
Stephen4, m. (2) Jannetie (or Jane) LefYerts Rapalje, b. 21 or 25
June, 1729, widow of Jeronemous (or Jeronimus) Rapalje, whoa. 13
March, 1754. She d. 13 March, 1795, in Granville.
Children by second Marriage.
Sybil5, b. 1762, d. 3 April, 1807, unmarried. A tombstone in Lower
Granville churchyard.
James5, b. 2 July, 1767, bap. 2 August, 1767.
Jane5, ? b. 28 Dec, 1767, "d. unmarried."
For the fact of Jane 'sb existence I am indebted solely to the Rapalje
Genealogy. Her father's will mentions his daughter Sybil, but not Jane,
and since her birth is said to have been in the same year as her brother
James', I do not believe there was a Jane. Stephen Thorne died Decem-
ber n, 1800, in his 84th year, and was buried in the Lower Granville
churchyard. His wife, Jane, died January 5, 1805, in her 76th year, and
is buried beside her husband.
Captain Thorne, as he was called, with two others, were mainly instru-
mental, about 1 79 1 , in building the Parish Church at Lower Granville,
in whose churchyard he and his family are buried. This quaint little
wooden church, but slightly altered since it was first built, is still in use.
I am not aware that services have ever been suspended there since the
beginning. Mr. Thorne " maintained his vigor to old age."
FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS.
Family of Edward*, son of Stephen*.
Edward5 (Stephen4, Joseph3, Joseph", William1), b. 10 August, 1747,
bap. 29 July, 1756, licensed to marry, 15 April, 1773, Jannetie ^'Jane
or Jean) Rapalje, who was b. 29 December, 1753, daughter of Jeronimus
and Jane Rapalje. The marriage is recorded in St. George's Parish,
Hempstead. They went to Granville, Nova Scotia, in 1783. Jeronimus
Rapalje, a brother of Jannetie (Rapalje) Thorne, is buried in the Lower
Granville churchyard. He died 13 March, 1795, in tne 44th year of his
age.
Edward Thorne was elected a member of the Nova Scotia House of
Assembly for the township of Granville, in the year 1799, and served
until 1806. He died 9 December, 1820, in the 73d year of his age. Stone
in Lower Granville churchyard. His wife, Jane, died 20th August,
1828. Stone in Lower Granville churchyard.
Children.
Stephen6, b. 2 July, 1 774-
Edward6, b. 18 April, 1781.
Jane6, b. 14 July, 1786.
Stephen* (Edward5, Stephen4), b. 2 July, 1774, d. unmarried, 25 May,
182S, in New York City. He early returned to New York, where he be-
came a prominent merchant. His partner in business was his friend
1 89 1.] Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, arid his Descendants. 177
Adam T red well. Mr. Thome's will was made Sept. 12, 1827, and proved
Sept. 16, 1830. He wills his share in his late father's estate to his mother
during her lifetime, "that she may have the income of it." After her
death it is to go to his brother Edward Thorne, and his sister Jane, wife
of Timothy Rnggles, "both of Granville, in Nova Scotia, to be equally
divided between them, and to their heirs." etc., etc. He gives to his
sister Jane the sum of $25,000, and to his brother Edward a like sum.
He gives to the children : Stephen, William K., and Sally Hatfield, of his
deceased Uncle Stephen, each, $1,500. He remembers also the children
of his late Uncle James of Granville, the eldest child of his partner Adam
Tredwell, and the eldest child that shall be living of his friend Leffert
Lefferts, Esquire, of Kings County, N. Y. Adam Tredwell and Leffert
Lefferts were his executors.
Edward6 (Edward5, Stephen4), b. 18 April, 1781, m. 2 January,
1809, Catherine Bogart, who was b. 1790. d. 12 February, i860. Stone in
Lower Granville churchyard. Edward died 8 May, 1837, aged 57 years>
and is buried beside his Wife. His children were :
Stephen Rapalji'1, b. 5 May, 18 10, d. at St. John, N. B., 13 June,
1836, m. 28 June, 1832, Maria Sands. He left one child, Elizabeth
Sands8 (b. 13 January, 1834), who was m. to G. Sidney Smith, of St.
John, N. B., barrister, and is still living.
Abraham Bogart1, b. 29 Nov., 18 12, d. 1876, circa m. Eliza Ann
Dickson (tiee Sands), who died 31 January, 1850. ' Stone in Lower Gran-
ville churchyard ; m. (2) Elizabeth Shaw Kennedy. Children : Richard8
(who married and left two children, Jane, E.9, and one other), Martha,
Edith8, who m. Edward LeffertS7 (James Townsend6, James5, Stephen4),
and has two children living — James Townsend and Hilda A. — and John
Kennedy8.
Jane6, b. at Granville, N. S. , 14 July, 1786, m. at Granville, 3 May,
1S10, to Timothy Ruggles, b. in Massachusetts, 7 March, 1776, a grand-
son of General Timothy Ruggles; went to Nova Scotia in 1795, was
elected to House of Assemb.y for Township of Granville in 1818, and
served until his death, 21 February, 1831. Their children were:
(a) Jane Rapalje7, b. 22 July, 181 2, m. to Abel Sands of St. John,
N. B., merchant.
(b) Harriet7, b. 16 Aug., 1814, m. a Mr. Bartlett of Halifax, N. S.,
by whom she had one child, Elizabeth J., who married (1) William Hazen,
of Loyalist descent, of St. John, N. B, civil engineer, (2) William }.
Starr, of Halifax, N. S. Died at St. John, N. B.
(c) Armanilla7, b. 17 January, 1816, died 23 Oct., 1831, at St. John,
N. B.
(d) Timothy Dwight7, b. 20 Dec, 1818, m. 12 July, 1842, Havilah Jane
Thome7 (Stephen Sneden6, James5, Stephen4). Mr. Ruggles resides at
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, and is a leading lawyer and banker of Annap-
olis County.
Children.
Timothy Dwighfi. Stephen Sneden8, Edwin8, Anna8, Harrf, Charles*,
and FannjP. Fanny is dead.
(e) Edward Thome7, b. 19 Oct., 1820. Dead.
(f) Stephen Thorne7, b. 18 February, 1S33. Dead.
L ._.-.
178 Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, and his Descendants. [Oct.,
Family of Stephen*, Son of Stephen*.
Stephen5 (Stephen4, Joseph3, Joseph2), William', b. 1750 (probably),
bap. 29 Jul}-, 1756. He did not go to Nova Scotia. There was a Stephen,
jr. , probably this Stephen, licensed to marry Sarah Piatt, 14 Oct., 1773.
[A Stephen, Jr., was licensed to marry Sarah Kippin, 23 Feby., 1779.
These may have been the first and second marriages of Stephen5, son of
Stephen4, above.] A Stephen Thorne d. in New York City, 23 Oct.,
1 8 14, aged 64, of typhoid pneumonia, and was buried in Trinity church-
yard. Sarah, his wife, d. in John Street 17 Dec, 1826, "of old age,"
aged 74, and is likewise buried in Trinity churchyard, but whether it is
this Stephen or not I do not certainly know.
Stephen5, son of Stephen4, had
Children.
Stephen.
William K.
Sally, m. to Richard Hatfield.*
Joseph5, Son of Stephen*.
Joseph5 (Stephen4, Joseph3, Joseph2, William1). Like his brother
Stephen, Joseph remained in New York. It is said that he was a
physician, and that he died unmarried.
Family of Philip5, Son of Stephen*.
Philip5 (Stephen4, Joseph3, Joseph2. William1 ), bap. 3 March, 1759,
m. in Wilmot, Nova Scotia, Miss Woodberry, and was buried at Wilmot,
N. S. Children, Edward6, Richard6, Woodberry6, and others. Wood-
berry was a physician.
Family of Richard*, Son of Stephen*.
Richard^, bap. 3 March, 1759 (Stephen4, Joseph3, Joseph2, William1),
m. Ann Williams of Digby, Nova Scotia, and died at the age of 71, circa.
The stone in the Lower Granville churchyard is weather-worn and indis-
tinct. He left one son, William6, who married and had four children :
Richard7, Eugenia7, Eliza7, and Frederick Williams7.
Family of fames1", Son of Stephen*.
James6 (Stephen4, Joseph3. Joseph2, William',), b. 2 July, 1767, bap.
2 August, 1767, died 15 July, 1819, aged 52 years. Stone in Lower
Granville churchyard. He m. in Nova Scotia, 22 March, 1792, Anna
Sneden, daughter of Stephen Sneden, a Loyalist, and his wife Margaret
(Townsend), b. 22 August, 1774, d. 21 Sept., 1855, m ner 81st )'ear-
Stone in Lower Granville churchyard. Stephen Sneden 's mother was a
Ward, of Ward's Island. Margaret Townsend, daughter of John, first
of East Chester, then of West Chester (b. 171 2, m. in 1739, Anne
Gedney, d. in 1787, and is buried in St. Paul's churchyard, East Chester),
* In April, 1S10, in Flushing, Richard Hatfield received 65 votes for the Legislature.
1891.] Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, and his Descendants. \*1Q
was one of eight children. She had a sister Martha, m. to Isnac Ward in
1773, and d. in 1825. Her nephew was John, son of Daniel Townsend,
b. 1779, f°r 43 years a warden of St. Paul's Church, East Chester ; elect-
ed in 18 16 a member of the Assembly, a member of the last Council of
Appointment that sat in the State, later Sheriff, and d. in 1849. Margaret
herself was m. to Stephen Sneden of West Chester in 1763. Hetty, a
daughter of Stephen and Margaret Sneden, was m. in West Chester to
Stephen Pell of Pelham Manor, a descendant of Sir John Pell, second Lord
of the Manor. They did not go to Nova Scotia. ( This Townsend family
is descended from John, one of the three brothers who came from Eng-
land to Long Island.)
Children.
Margaret Anna6, b. 20 May, 1793,
Stephen Sneden6, b. 28 June, 1795.
Jane6, b. 9 August, 1797.
James8, b. 2S May, 1800, d. in infancy.
Mary6, b. 21 Sept'., 1S01.
Sybil6, b. 25 April, 1804.
Edward Lefferts6, b. 9 Sept., 1807.
Sarah Hester6, b. 10 Febv., 18 10.
Richard Ward6, b. 10. Febv., 18 12.
James Townsend6, b. 30 May, 1S15.
Of these daughters Margaret Anna6 was m. in Granville to John Mc-
Call, to whom she bore several children. She lived in Lower Granville.
Jane6 was m. 21 January, 1820, to James Hall,b. Feby. , 1795, d. 19 Sept.,
1834, brother of Mehitable, wife of Stephen Sneden Thorne6. She d. in
St. John, N. B., 24 Nov., 1885. Her children were : (a) James Thorne,
m. 29 August, 1850, Anna de Forest, of St. John, and d. in St. John, 5
Jany., 1867 ; (b) David Harris, b. 5 March, 1824, m. 11 May, 1848, Susan
Mary Gove, daughter of Jeremiah, of St. John ; (c) Stephen Sneden,
m. it Sept., 1851, Havilah Shaw Fellows; (d) Anna Maria, m. 11 Sept.,
1850, to George Sylvester de Forest, of St. John. Mary* was m. to Joseph
Shaw of Granville, and had children : (a) Joseph, (b) Moses, (c) Phebe,
m. to John J. James of Richibucto, N. B., barrister, (d) Sarah Jane, m.
to Mathewson of Halifax, N. S., (e) Mary, m. first to Dr. T. A. D.
Foster of St. John, second, to Geo. H. Trueman, of St. John, (f ) Sybil, m.
to Capt. Vibert, (g) Margaret, m. to Joseph Salter, (h) Letitia, m. to
Bowles, of Ottawa ; (i) James. Sybil* was m. first to Capt. Moses Hall,
of Granville, and had one child, Elizabeth Prichard, b. 5 Feby., 1831, m.
to John H. Foster, of St. John. Sybil6 was m. second, 23 April, 1834, in
Granville, to Edward Thomas Knowles, b. 5 Jany., 1804', at Windsor,
N. S., to whom she bore : (a) Joseph Shaw, b. 11 Aug., 1835, m. 28
Feby., 1S87, Emma Mary Noble, of Halifax, (b) Edward Thorne,
b. 14 July, 1837, d. 8 Sept., 1837, (c) Anna Sneden, b. 17 Nov. 1838,
m. 8 Jany., 1863, to Stephen James King, of St. John. Sarah Hester*
was m. first, 4 Oct., 1838, to Shadrach Ricketson, of Granville, to whom
she bore one child : Harriet Anna, b. 8 July, 1839, m. 29 July, 1863, to
Rev. Fletcher Hayward Wilson Pickles. Shadrach Ricketson, d. 7 June,
1840, and Sarah Hester was m. second, 12 Oct., 1856, to Henry Blakslee,
of Bear River, N. S., where she is buried.
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I So Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, and his Descendants. [Oct.,
SIXTH AND SEVENTH GENERATIONS.
Family of Stephen Sneden*, son of fames*, son of Stephen*.
Stephen Sneden6, b.28 June, 1795, m' 2I December, 1818, Mehitable
Paton Hall, b. 11 June, 1797, d. 13 November, 1882, daughter of James
and Mary Hall, of Granville. He died 29 December, 1874. Both are
buried in Halifax.
Children.
James Hall7, 28 Sept., 1818.
Stephen?, b. 18 July. 1821.
Havilah Jane7, b. 18 April, 1823.
Anna Sneden?, b. 15 July, 1825.
Of these four children, James Hall7, m. 13 October, 1847, Mary
Piper Robinson, daughter of Dr. Silas and Rhoda (Burgess) Piper, and d.
8 May, 18S7. Children : Lydia Ann, b. 1847, m. John B. Gray, and d.
8 August, 1877, leaving one daughter, fames Hall, b. 6 Feby., 1850,
m. Jessie, daughter of Charles Robson, and d. 23 Oct., 1887. Stephen
Sneden, b. 31 Dec, 185 1, m. 28 April, 1891, Ada Sayre Harrison.
Edward Lefferts, b. — , m. Jessie, daughter of James McNab. Living-
ston Morse, d. young. Sancton, d. young. Sarah Fra?ices Almon, b.
10 March, 1863. Augusta Billing, b. 26 January, 1866, m. 16 June,
1887, to Leslie Seymour Eaton. Stephen7, m. 18 Sept., 1843, Lydia
Ann, b. Nov. 10, 1823, daughter of George A. and Ann (Shaw) Lockhart.
Children : Annie Lockhart, b. iS July, 1844. Charles Sturgis, b. 13 Oct.,
1S45. Stephen Sneden, b. 11 June, 1847, Georgina, b. 21 Sept., 1849.
fames Edward, b. 6 May, 185 1. Cordelia Swinburne, b. 5 April, 1853.
Grace Irene, b. 14 Oct., 1S55. Frances L.avinia Sanford, b. 3 July, 1858.
George A., b. 19 Feb}-., i860. Albion Parr is, h. 17 Dec, 1861. Rich-
ard Hamilton, b. — . Havilah Jaxe7, m. 12 July, 1842, to Timothy Dwight
Ruggles, son of Timothy Dwight and Jane6 (Thorne) Ruggles. Chil-
dren : Timothy Dwight, m. Emma Morse. Stephen Sneden. Edwin, m.
(1) Annie Wheelocu, daughter of Joseph, (2) Minnie Fitz Randolph, dau.
of Charles. Anna, m. Arthur Johnston, son of Judge James Johnston.
Harry, m. Augusta Taylor. Charles, m. Gibson. Fannie. Anna
Snkdkn7, m. 6 June, 1850, to Dr. Lewis Johnston, son of Dr. Lewis, and
nephew of Judge James William Johnston. Children : Florence, m. Ed-
win Gilpin. Fannie, m. Partridge. Minnie.
Stephen Sneden Thorne6 resided in Bridgetown. He was elected to
the House of Assembly for Granville, in 1836, and served until 1854 when
he resigned. During a portion of his 18 years of public service as a
Representative, he was a member of the Government as Chairman of the
Board of Public Works. He died at Bridgetown, but was buried at
Camp Hill Cemetery in Halifax, where there are grave-stones for both
him and his wile. From the election of Edward5 in 1799 until the res-
ignation of Stephen Sneden6 in 1854, with only short intermissions,
members of the Thorne family were continually acting as Representatives
to the Legislature. James Hall7 (Stephen Sneden6) was graduated B.A.
at Kings College, Windsor, in 1840, admitted to the Bar in 1844, and
1 89 1.] Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, and his Descendants. 1S1
became Master of the Supreme Court, and Registrar of the Divorce Court.
At the time of Confederation, he held the position of Deputy Provincial
Secretary, and for many years was Chief of the Money-Order Office in
Halifax. Stephen7, brother of James Hall,7 lives in' Chicago.
Family 0/ Edward Leffcrts*, son 0/ James1, son of Stephen*.
Edward Lefferts6, b. 9 Sept., 1807, m. 5 Jul)', 1835, Susan Scovil,
(of Loyalist descent), b. 3 Nov., 1816 ; still living in 18S9. He was for
many years Chai/man of the Customs' Appraisers in St. John. He died
there.
Children.
Mary Lucretia7, b. 20 April, 1836.
William Henry7, b. 12 Sept., 1844.
Daniel Scovil7, b. 26 Feby., 1848.
Susan Louise7, b. 15 March, 1S54.
Arthur Townsend7, b. 19 April, 1859.
Of these daughters : Susan Louise was m. to Legh Richmond Harri-
son, lawyer, of St. John, of Loyalist descent.
Family 0/ Richard Ward6, son 0/ James1, son of Stephen*,
Richakd Ward6, b. 10 February. 181 2, removed in 1833 from Gran-
ville, N. S. , to St. John, N. B., where he was for many years engaged
in a wholesale and retail flour business, in partnership with Edward T.
Knowles, the firm being known as " Knowles & Thorne." He is at
present Clerk of the Board of Health of St. John. He m. 4 May, 1842,
Catherine Alder Hennigar, b. 25 April, 1823, daughter of Henry Henni-
gar, late of the Ordnance Department of Her Majesty's Forces at St.
John, and his wife Ann Spurr, daughter of Abraham Spurr of Annapolis,
N. S. [He d. 16 May, 1891, while this article was going through the
press. It is by his careful research that many of the facts here given
have been obtained.]
Children.
Richard Ward7, Jr., b. 6 July, 1843, m. 14 Sept., 1881, Mary Ada
Chapman, daughter of Martin Chapman, of Point de Bute, N. B. They
have one child, Nellie Keilor, b. 23 August. 1882. He is with Clarke,
Kerr & Thome, hardware dealers, St. John, N. B.
Henry Hennigar7, b. 16 Nov., 1844, d. — Aug., 1845.
Stephen Sneden7, b. 11 May, 1846, m. 4 Sept., 1883, Alice Bertha
Lowenspn, daughter of Captain Richard Lowenson, ship-owner, of Am-
herst, Nova Scotia. He is of the firm of Thorne Brothers, hatters, St.
John, N. B.
James Lefferts7. b. 5 December, 1847, m. 17 June, 1878, Amelia
Fieelove Capers, daughter of Judge Le Grand G. Capers, of the Florida
Courts (b. 15 Sept., 1808, d. at Brooklyn, N. Y., 29 January, 1868).
They have one child, Catherine Thorne Capers, b. 9 May, 1884. He
is also of the firm of Thorne Bros.
1 82 Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, and his Descendants. [Oct.,
. Kate Ellen7, b. 29 May, 1849, m- — Sept., 1879, William F. Flem-
ing, now of Boston, Mass.
Anna Sibell7, b. n December, 1851, m. 21 May, 1874, Robert
Chestnut Thorne, son of Henry John Thorne, late of Fredericton, N.B.,
postmaster, Mayor of St. John, (formerly of Plymouth, England), and
his wife, Agnes (Chestnut). Children : Robert Burpee, b. 3 April, 1875.
Edna Louise, b. 24 August, 1876. Helen Capers, b. 15 March, 1878.
Henry John, b. 23 November, 1879. Janet Loivenson, b. 27 June, 1881.
Percy Chestnut, b. 28 August, 1882. A nna Maud, b. 10 September,
1884, Richard Ward, b. 13 January, 1887.
Mary Hennigar7, b. 30 September, 1853, m. 3 July, 1888, Edward
Thomas Chesley Knowles4, b. 26 January, 1850 ; son of Edward Thomas
Knowles3 (Henry2, Henry1), and his wife, Phoebe Jane3 (Chesley), b.
21 April, 1821 ; daughter of Samuel Chesley2 ( b. 4 April, 1762, d. 17
November, 1853) ; the first English male child born in the township of
Granville, N. S. His father, Samuel Chesley1, fought at the siege of
Louisburg, and after the war was granted lands in Granville, N. S. Mr.
E. T. C. Knowles practices law in St. John, N. B.
Ada Louise Sancton7, b. 31 ,August, 1859, m. 7 June, 1 88 1, Peter
Wellington Snider, b. 14 July, 1854 ; son of Samuel Snider, of Brantford,
Ontario. Mr. P. W. Snider is Superintendent of the Canada Pacific Rail-
way Telegraph Service at St. John, N. B.
Harriet Prichard7, b. 17 February, 1861.
Family of James Townsend6, son of James5, son of Stephen*.
James Townsend6, b. 30 May, 1815, m. 11 April, 1839, Eliza Rob-
blee, b. 9 July, 18 19.
Children.
James Hall7, b. 14 February, 1841, m. Lydia Worster, daughter of
John Worster, of Granville, N. S.
Mary Emily7, b. 10 March, 1843.
Anna Sneden7, b. 12 May, 1S45, m. Benjamin Condon, of Berwick,
King's Co., Nova Scotia, and has several children.
Joseph Reed7, b. 3 October, 1847, m. Blanche Pickup, daughter of
Samuel Pickup, of Granville, N. S., d. 15 July, i860.
Frederick Williams7, b. 26 August, 185 1, m. Emma Croscup, and has
one child.
Edward LefFerts7, b. 31 December, 1S53, m* Martha Edith8, daugh-
ter of Abraham Bogart Thorne7 (Edward6, James6, Stephen4), and has
two children : James Townsend and Hilda A.
Sybil Shaw7, b. 18 January, 1855, d. 15 July, 1S60.
Stephen Ernest7, b. 2 Jul}-, i860.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. iS
RECORDS OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH IN THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.— Baptisms.
(Continued from Vol. XXII., p. 148, of The Record.)
A° 1735. OUDERS.
Mar. 5. Abraham Andries-
zen, Elisabeth
Buys.
9. Cornells Turk, Catha-
rina v. Tilbiirg.
[533-1
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Mattheiis. Nicolaus Soefman, Wil-
lemtje Buys, z. h. v.
Belitje. Johannes de Graaf,
ClaasjeVan Schavk, z.
h. v.
12. Rulard Norwood, Vanderklyf. Gerrit Rottery, Margareta
Maria Kool. Vanderklyf, Wed v.
Gerrit Rottery.
Walther Heyer, Jen- Catharina. Victoor Heyer, Jannetje
neke Van Vorst. Van Gelder, z. h. v.
16. Philip Melsbag. Petrus. Willem Corcelius, Maria
Catharina Cloiiw- Clouwryn, j. d.
ryn.
19. Gerard Beekman, Magdalena. Willem Beekman, Catha-
Catharina Provoost. rina de Lanoy, z. h. v.
Willem 't Swansich, Rachel. Jan Haarn, Rachel Web-
Hester Van Nor- bers, z. h. v.
den.
Gerard lis Harden- Sara,
broek, Heiltje
Cooly.
23. Laurens Lammerdze, Johannes
Lea Bras.
Abraham Kip, Maria Isaac.
Vanden Berg.
J a c o b 11 s P i e t e r Catharina.
Snyder, Elisabeth
Lot.
^s" 26. Gysbert Van Deusen, Jacob.
Anne t j e Ten
Broek.
30. Christiaan Hertel, Petriis.
Annatje Koster.
April 2. Bartholomews Reinier.
Schaats, J a cob a
Liiwes.
7. Wynant Van Zant, Maria.
Catharina Ten
Eyk.
13. Thomas Bayux, Hendrik.
J ,ii n i o r , Sara
Ciiiler.
N.icolaas Rozeveldt,
Rachel Twintvman,
j. d.
Jan Van Pelt, Helletje
Lammerdze, h. v. v..
Jan Markel.
Isaac Kip, Catlyntje Kip,
h. v. Van Pieter Mar-
shal k.
Pieter Corcelius, Anna
Catharina Staar, j. d.
Johannes Paulsze, Tryntje
Van Deusen, z. h. v.
George Pietersze, Marytje
Koster, h. v. v. Van
Cornelis Tiboiit.
Reinier Schaats Nak,
Francyntje Liiis, j. d.
Henderik Van Bossen,
Margrietje Van Zand,
z. h. v.
Benjamin Doriette, Anna
Oiiwtmans, z. h. \p.
184 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Oct.,
A° 1735. OUDERS. KINDERS,
16. Stephen Bayard, Nicolaas.
Alida Vetch.
P i e t e r Andriesze, Cornelia.
Cornelia Horns.
Petriis Louw, Rache Jannetje.
Roseveldt.
20.
Petrus R ii t g e r s ,
Helena Hoog-
landt.
Helena.
Paiilus Heyer, Sara
Sara.
Burger.
23-
Joris Brink erhof,
Elisabet Byvank.
Aaltje.
Johannes Clopper,
Cornells.
Elisabet Ten Eyk.
27.
David Schot, Claasje
Bensing.
David.
Abraham Persel, Jan-
Myndert.
netje Van Yeveres.
30.
Johannes Boeken-
h 0 ve n , Elisabet
Van Gelder.
Johannes,
Richard Kip, Maria
Elias.
Elles.
[534.]
m
May 4.
Henry Ciiiler, Maria
Jacobs.
Abraham.
Johannes Poel, Sara
Tietje.
Wilkes.
7-
Johannes Van Deiir-
Johannes.
sen, Geertje Min-
thorn.
Robbert Livingston, Sara.
Junior, Maria
Thong.
15. Abraham Potro, Aletta.
Marytje Vrelant.
John Richard, Elisa- Catharina.
bet Rensselaar.
23. Cornells Van Gelder, Elisabet.
Elisabet Mesier.
Richard Waldron, Antje.
Antje de Graaf.
GETUYGEN.
Samuel Bayard, Junior,
Margriet Harden, h. v.
v. Rob' Livingston.
Joris Horn, Jenneke
Bogaert.
Jacobus Roseveldt, Sara
Kip, h. v. v. Johs v.
d. Heul.
Antony Rutgers, Cornelia
Rutgers, j. d.
Caspar Burger, Sara Wal-
dron, z. h. v.
Evert Byvank, Marytje
Cannon, z. h. v.
Cornells Clopper, Catha-
rina Geveraat, z. h. v.
John Lake, Annatje Ben-
sing, j. d.
Burger Van Y. Veren,
Elsje Van Yveren, j. d.
Stephanus Boekenhoven,
Annatje Van Gelder,
h. v. v. John Brasjer.
Elias Elles, Sara Paers,
z. h. v.
Robberd Livingston,
Junior, Sara Ciiiler, h.
v. van Thomas Baviix.
Jan Wilkes, M a r y t j e
Wilkes, j. d.
John Man, Junior, Anna
Minthorn, z. h. v.
Pieter Livingston, Junior, .
Judith Bayard, Wed
van Rip Van Dam,
Junior.
Abel Harden brock.
Aletta Vreland, h. v.
van Johs Vrelant.
Paiilus Richard, Elisabet
Garland, s. li. v.
Abraham Mesier, Jan-
netje Wessels, h. v.
van Peter Mesier.
Jan Bogaart, Philippus
Goelet, Annatje Wal-
dron, h. v. van Ysaak
Van Deiirsen.
1 891.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. \%r
A" I735-
Johannes Smith,
Esther Riche.
26. Adam Koning, An-
natje Day.
Jiiny 1. John Tarp, Apolony
Heerman.
Timotheiis Tarp,
Margrietje Heer-
man.
4. Gerrit Heyer, An-
netje Roome.
«5-
29.
July
n-
[535.]
16.
Frederik Fyn, Rachel
Bensing.
Wessel W e s s e 1 s ,
Rachel Van Im-
burg.
James Tucker,
Marytje Woerten-
dyk.
Nicolaas Gouverneiir,
Geertriiyd Reyn-
ders.
P i e t e r Vliereboom,
Jannetje V a n d e r
Voort.
P e t r li s Montanje,
Annetje Dyer.
H e n d r i k Kermer,
Rachel Gerrits.
Philippus G o ele t,
Catharina Boelen.
Johannes Van W\« k,
Catharina Doiiw.
Frederik Philipse,
Johanna Brock -
hols.
P i e t e r Lammerse,
Maria Bennet.
Adam VandenBerg,
Maria Spoor.
Nicolaas Dykman,
A n neke Seven-
oosren.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
D'Harriette, Benjamin D'Harriette,
geboren 3 ]unr, Anna Oiitman,
February h. v. van Benjamin
laatst. D'Harriette, Senior.
Willem. Paulus Hoppe, Rachel
Peek, h. v. van Ary
Koning.
Anna. Thomas Montanje, An-
natje Heerman, j. d.
Rebecca. Vincent Montanje, Mar-
grietje Eckersen, Wede
van Folker Heerman.
Annetje. Walter Heyer & Bregje
Roome, h. v. van Isaak
Boka.
Frederik. Wynand Van Zandt, Jan-
netje Van Zandt, h. v.
van John Co.
Anna. Obadia Huntt, Jannetje
Wessels, s. h. v.
Robbert. Elias Ellis, Jan neke
Peers, h. v. v. Cornelis
Woertendyk.
Nicolaas. Nicolaas Bayard, Johanna
Reynders, h. v. v.
David Provoost.
Christina. Pieter VanderVoort,
Christina Schamp, h.
v. v. Cornelis Vander
Hoef.
Thomas. Jan Ekkerson, Sara Dyer,
syn h. v.
Nicolaas Ide Myer, Jiidikj Ger-
Gerritse. ritse, j. d.
Catharina. Jacob Goelet, Catharina
Boelen, syn h. v.
Johannes. Johannes Douw, Cornelia
Waldron, h. v. v. Gerrit
de Foreest.
Anthony. David Clarkson, Maria
Ver Plank, h. v. v.
Henry Brockhols.
Aaltje. Jan Bennet, Antje Van
Sikkelen, syn h. v.
Gerrit. Harmen VandeWater,
Maria Coljer, syn h. v.
Wyntje. Nicolaas K o r t r e g t ,
Anneke Dykman, j. d.
7 36 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Nov Fork. [Oct.,
Aug.
Sept.
1735. OUDERS.
23. Jan Foos, Wil-
lemyntje Broiiwer.
27. Jan Cannon, Junior,
Jeriisa Sands.
Jan Pieteise, Marytje
Stevenson.
3. Jacobus Stoutenburg,
Maria Turk.
6. Jan de Wit, Anna
Van Home.
10. Simson Bensen, An-
netje Ament.
13. Andries Van Albadi,
Annatje Montanje.
Jan A 1 v e r , Antje
Blom.
Elbert Herring, Elisa-
bet Bogard.
Samuel Lawrence,
Anna Van Tiiyl.
17. W i 1 1 e m Bogaart,
Junior, Annatje
Pel.
Thomas Montanje,
Rebecca Brven.
20. H e n d r i k Bogardt,
Cornelia de Graiiw.
Marten Bogardt,
Christina Parcel.
Johannes Myer,
Elisabet Pel.
Thomas Win dove r,
Elisabet Elsworth.
29. Hendrik Christof :
Springer, Rachel
Koning.
Isaac Chardevine,
Anna Caar.
Willem Vredenbiirg,
Catharina Schot.
31. Nicolaas Antony,
Hester Rome.
5. Johannes Broiiwer,
Susanna Draljet.
KINDERS.
GETUYGEN.
Sara.
Cornelis Broiiwer, Maria
Foos, j. d.
Sara.
Evert Byvank, Maria
Canon, s. h. v.
Margareta.
Joseph de Voe, Sara
Blom, s. h. v.
Isaak.
Johannes Turk, Annetje
Kiiyper, syn h. v.
Johannes.
Dr Archibald Fisher,
Elsebet Van Home,
h. v. v. D° H. Boel.
Mattheus.
Johannes Van Zandt,
Tryntje Bensen, syn
h. v.
Jan.
Jacobus Montanje, Maria
Pels, syn h. v.
Johannes.
Joseph de Voe, Sara
Blom, syn h. v.
Elbert.
Elbert Lieversen, Catha-
rina Bogaard, syn h. v.
Margareta.
Hendrik Criiger, Sara
Criiger, j. d.
Willem.
Willem Bogaard, Senior,
Hillegond Joris Van
Home, syn h. v.
Rebecca.
Jan Ekkerson, Nelly
Potter, j. d.
Henricus.
Cornelis Bogardt, Cor-
nelia Van Duyn, syn
h. v.
Lea.
Gisbert Bogard, Elisabet
Provoost, Wed. van
Johannes Beekman.
Debora.
Antony Ham, Geertruy
Pel, b. v. van Simon
Van Syse.
Maria.
Hercules Windover,
Maria Pieters, syn h. v.
Rachel.
Arie Koning, Rachel
Peek, z. h. v.
Maria.
John Liiwis, Maria Caar,
j. d.
Willem Vredenbiirg. Wil-
Willem.
lemyntje Nak.
Theophiliis. Jan Gosherey, Jesyntje
Elsworth, Wed v. Davd.
.Care.
Susanna. Jacob Brouwer, Susanna
Wede van Paiil Draljet.
1 89 1.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Nw York. jg
A° 1735. OUDERS.
7. Pieter Van Norden,
Anna Willemsze.
10. Abraham de Peyster,
Margareta V. Cort-
land.
14. Willem Laton, Mar-
grietje Kittel.
[536.]
17-
21.
20.
Oct.
12.
19.
Resolvert Waldron,
Jannetje Myer.
Jan Ekkerson, Sara
Dyer.
Abraham Brasher,
Elizabeth Dally.
Johannes Vreden-
burg, A n n a t j e
Blom.
Pieter Hendrikse,
Megteltje Sabrisko.
Abraham Bocke, Re-
becca Paers.
Joris Elsworth, Jan-
netje Mesjerol.
5. Johannes
Bregje Pels.
Tevo,
Aaltje
Fracis Baree,
Turk.
Teunis Tibouwt,
Margrietje Drink-
water.
David Gordon, Elisa-
beth Wol.
Johannes Ten Eyk,
Antje Drinkwater.
A d r i a a n Banker,
Elisabth Van Taer-
ling.
Jan Van Aarnem,
Jenneke V. Deiir-
sen.
Ph ilippus Luwis,
Liicretia V. Teer-
ling.
KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Pieter. Abraham Ten Eyk,
geboren den Jesjftitje Berkels, z. h. v.
25 August.
Maria. Stephanus V. Cortlandt,
Cornelia Schuyler, h.
v. van Pierre de Pey-
ster.
Johanna, James Favier, Charlotta
Maria, Boeje, z. h. v. Her-
tweelinge. maniis Rutgers, Jannetje
Brat, h. v. v. Teunis v.
Gelder.
Catharina. Pieter Waldron, Elisabeth
Myer, z. h. v.
Jannetje. Petriis de La Montague,
Jannetje Dyer, z. h. v.
Elizabeth. Philip Dally, Cornelia
Van Gelder.
Jannatje. Jacob Blom, Appolonia
Vredenburg, h. v. v.
Vrederyk Blom.
Elisabet. Johannes Sabrisko, Mar-
grietje Derje, z. h. v.
Johannes. Johs Paers, Maria Bocke,
Wed : v. Sam" Ben-
sing.
Marretje. Johs Minthorne, Geertje
M i n t h o r n e , h. y. v.
Johs v. Deusen.
Theophilus. Jacobus Serly, Elisabeth
Blaiiwveld, Wed. v.
Christof1 Pels.
Elisabeth. Jacobus Stouwtenburg,
Marytje Turk.
Albertus. Albertus Tibouwt, Cor-
nelia Bogaart.
Annatje. Ericus Wol, Rachel
Gordon.
Hendrik. Teunis Tibouwt, Annatje
Varik, j. d.
Jannatje. Hermann us Schuyler,
Neeltje Lansing.
Anna. Edward Man, Maria V.
Deursen, z. h. v.
Elisabeth.
Johs de Kay,
K a y, h. ^
Schoffel.
Helena de
. v. Sam1
1 58 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Oct.,
A1 1735. OUDERS.
Johannes Doiivepach,
Christina Herder.
W i 1 1 e m Elsworth,
Marytje V.
Grumme.
22. Jan Basset, Elsebeth
Visher.
Jacob d s Rosevelt,
Catharina Harden-
broek.
Philippiis Minthorne,
Anna Rail.
26. Thomas Oakes, Eva
Burger.
Pieter Ament, Elisa-
beth Tienhoven.
Nov. 2. Aswerus Turk, Hille-
gond Kiiiper.
5. Daniel Ebbets,
Marytje Van Vorst.
H end r i k Ellis,
Marytje Siggels.
Nicolaas Schopman,
Willemyntje Buis.
L537-]
9-
Hennery Filkens,
Elsebeth Smit.
David Schuiler, Elisa-
beth Marschalk.
Johannes Denemar-
ken, Rachel Beek-
man.
Hendrik V. de Water,
Anna Skilman.
16. Barend Bosch, Aafje
Bruyn.
23. N ico la a s Kermer,
Aaltje Sebring.
Johan Jonas Bakker,
Anna Geertriiy
Wagenaar.
28. Joseph Waldron,
Aafje Ellaken.
KINDERS.
GETUYGEN.
Geertje.
Michiel Christoffel Roiiw,
M arytje.
Marytje Corcelius, j. d.
Christoffel Elsword,
Pieternelle Roome, h.
v. Wm Elsword.
Frederyk.
Isaac S vv i t s , Rebecca
Oukelbach, Wed. v.
Burger Sipkens.
Adolphiis.
Nicolas Rosevelt, Helena
Rosevelt, j. d.
Sara.
Aarnoud Webbers, Sara
Minthorn, z. h. v.
Sara.
Joseph J 6 m y n , Sara
Ryers, Wed. v. Gerrit
Burger.
Johannes.
Liicas Tienhoven, Sara
Tienhoven, j. d.
Jacobus.
Pieter Van Bendhuizen,
Margrietje Olphers, z.
h. v.
Jan Van Vorst, Wyntje
Anna.
' Van, Vorst, j. d.
Jannetje.
Jan Siggels, Anna Siggels,
j. d.
Jacobus Kip, Nelletje
Nicolaas.
Kip.
Hennery. Abraham Filkens, Try-ntje
Tibouwt, z. h. v.
Cathalina. Jques du Mon, Cathalina
Kip, h. v. van G. Mar-
schalk.
Johannes. Thomas Goodlad, Maria
Witveldt, z. h. v.
Elisabeth. Cornells Clopper, Maria
Skilman, h. v. van
Johs Band.
Susanna. Pieter Bosch, Susanna
Janssen, z. h. v.
Thomas. Hendricus Kermer, Ja-
comyntje G e r r i t s , z.
h. v.
Catharina. Pieter Bakkers, Catharina
Folpert, Wede v. Paul
Wagenaar.
Willem. Hendrik Van Winkelen,
Catharina Waldron.
i8qi.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in JVav York. jgo
A° 1735. OUDERS. KINDERS.
30. Ri c hard Langdon, Hendrik.
Anna Kuiler.
Dec. 7. Joost Paalding, Sii- Willem.
sanna Wyt.
14. Jacobiis Jansse, Mar- Mattheus.
grietje Fyn.
Lucas Van Vegten, Christiaan.
Tanna Woedert.
21. Willem Rome, Anna Wessel.
Wessels.
Francis, Knegt v. Sara.
Hermanns v.
Gelder, Eli sab.
Bikker, Meyd v.
G u i 1 i a a n Ver
Plank.
25. Daniel Bonnet, Nelletje.
Nelletje v. Water.
Pieter Bondt, Cate- Jmmetje.
lyntje Meyer.
28. Pieter Van Ranst, Jacobus.
Sara Kierstede.
GET UY GEN.
Hendrik Kuiler, Junior,
Maria Jacob*, h. v. v.
Hendk Kuiler.
Willem Wyt, Jiin., Elisa-
beth Wyt, Wed. v. Torn5
Kilmaeswz.
Frederik Fyn, Rachel
Bensen, z. h. v.
Christiaan Stouber, Anna
Maria Hofman, z. h. v.
Isaac Van Hoek, Maria
Rome, j. d.
Philip M at this, Knegt
Van Stephen Bayard,
Siissek Samburv, Knegt
v. de Wed : Bi'kly, Su-
sanna Boun, Meyd v.
Abrm Van Vlek. '
Albartiis Tibouwt, Sara
T i b o li \v t , Wed. v.
Ewoiiwd Ewouwdse.
Abraham Bondt, Hen-
drikje d'Meyer, h. v.
v. Joris Lam.
Jacobus Kierstede,
Marytje Rykman, h. v.
v. Liics Kierstede.
A° 1736.
Jan. 11. Benjamin Jar vis, Maria.
Maria Koning.
18. Johannes Peffer, Eva Michiel.
Van Vegten.
21. Isaac Bokee, Bregje Isaac.
Rome.
J
Dirk Ten Eyk, Marytje.
Marytje Couwen-
hoven.
25. Johs de La Montagne, Hermannus.
Susanna Bussing.
Adolf Bras, Maria Catarina.
Kersteng.
Andries B a r h e i t , Catharina.
Rachel Hoist.
[538.]
28. Josiia Slidel, Elisa- Nicolaas.
beth Janszen.
Adam Koning, Rachel
Koning, h. v. v. Hen-
drik Christoffr Spring-
er.
Lucas Van Vegten, Maria
Hofman, h. v. v.
Christiaan Souber.
Jacob Harssen, Marytj
Bokee, Wede v. Sam1
Bensen.
Johannes Coiiwenhoven, )/
Sara Couwenhoven, j. d.
Johannes Vredenbiirg,
Annatje Blom, z. h. v.
Hendrik Bras, Margrietje
Helling, z. h. v.
Nicolaas Kortregt, Mar-
grietje Barheit, j. d.
Abraham Aalstyn,
Marytje Jansze, z. h. v.
I qO Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Ktw Fork. [Oct.,
A° I736-
OUDERS.
KINDERS.
Feb. ..
Johannes Burger,
Jannetje Brodwer.
Jannetje.
Willem Hoppe, Elisa-
Jacomyntje.
beth Van Norden.
4-
Henricus Bnelen,
Catharina.
Jannetje Waldron.
-
8.
Gysbert Uitden-
bogard, Catharina
Hunter.
Beelitje.
*5-
Willem P a s m a n ,
Justin a Lee.
Willem.
Gysbert Gerritze,
Willem.
Margarita Lescher.
Willem C r 0 1 1 i u s,
Petrvis.
Veronica Cor-
celiiis.
1 1.
Johannes A a 1 s t y n,
Catharina Rapalje.
Hieronimiis,
George Eikley, Sara
Johanna.
Van Amen.
22.
Isaac Van Hoek,
Aafje Van Schayk.
Hendrikje.
2 7.
Abraham Kip, Maria
Vanden Berg.
Sara.
Henricus Smit, Titia
Elsje.
Rapalje.
Wilhelnuis Popeles-
Elisabet.
dorph, Anna Styn.
Johannes Hoppe,
Andreas.
M a r y t j e Van
Orden.
Maart 14.
Cornelis Low. Junior,
Johanna Gouver-
neur.
Cornelius.
Jacobus Kip, Catha-
Margrietje.
rina Kip.
21.
John White, Susanna
Defenne.
Hester.
Evert Pels, Catharina
Catharina.
de Graiiw.
Willem Corceliiis,
Elisabet Vreden-
biinr.
Jannatje.
GETUYGEN.
Cornelis Turk, Catharina
Van Tilburg, h. v. v.
C. Turk.
Paulus Hoppe & Marytje
Qiiakkenbosch, h. v. v.
P. Hoppe.
Philippus Goelet, Jannetje
Goelet, j. d.
Jacobus Stoutenbiirg,
Maria Turk, z. h. v.
Victoor Bikker, Annalje
Cregier, z. h. v.
Gideon Carstang, Catha-
rina Cokkever, z. h. v.
Petriis Corcelius. Elisa-
beth L o 1 1 , h. v. v.
Jacob Peter Snyder.
Hieroninimus Rapalje,
Hilletje Van Vegten,
z. u. v.
Johan Pieter Zenger, Jo-
hanna, h. v. v. Sam1
Carter.
Johs de Graaf, Hendrikje
Brevoort. j. d.
Isaak Kip, Catalyntje
Kip, h. v. van Pieter
Marschalk.
John Ten Broek, An-
natje Smit, syn h. v.
F r a n s Walter, Elisabet
Haan, syn h. v.
Andries Hoppe, Elisabet
Bras, syn h. v.
Lewis Morris, junior,
Sarah Gouverneur, j. d.
Johannes Kip, Nelletje
Kip, j. d.
Harmen Bensing, Hester
Defenne, h. v. Thomas
Shebo.
Hendrik Bogart, Elisabet
Blaiivelt, W e d . van
Theophilus Pek:.
Johannes Vredcnbiirg,
Apolonia Vredenburg,
h. v. van Fred e r i k
Blom.
1 89 1.] Jasper Griffin of Sonthold, X. Y. jgi
JASPER GRIFFIN OF SOUTHOLD, N. Y., AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS.
Communicated by Edmund J. Cleveland, of Hartford.
The following notes have been furnished chiefly by George Butler Grif-
fin, Esq., of Los Angeles, Cal., and Justus Alonzo Griffin, of Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, now actively engaged in compiling the Genealogy of the
Griffin Family. May the publication of these items lead to the collection,
into one handsome volume, of the genealogies of all Griffins or Griffings
(whether perceptibly related or not), who immigrated to America at
various periods. Researches should be made in Wales and in Devon-
shire, and other places in England.
The Welsh ancestors of Jasper Griffin called themselves Gruffid, an
approach to the true pronunciation as close as can be conveyed by the
English sounds of the alphabet. With regard to the spelling of the name
in England : Sir John Griffin, a baronet of Yorkshire, spelled it Griffin ;
his descendants so spell it to-day. The brothers William and Kirkland
Griffin, who were with Paul Jones in the fight off Scarborough Head,
were taken prisoners by the British subsequently, and afterward were
visited in prison by Sir John, who recognized them as kinsmen. Lady
Franklin, wife of the Arctic navigator, was before marriage Miss Jane
Griffin.
There appears to have been a large number of emigrants to America
bearing the name Griffin and Griffing. Savage's Genealogical Dic-
tionary mentions the following : Hugh, one of the first settlers of Sudbury,
Mass. ; Hugh, of Stratford, 1654 ; Humphrey, of Ipswich, 1641 ; Jasper,
ofSouthold; John, of Windsor, 1646; John, of Boston, before 1655;
John, of Salisbury: Matthew, of Saybrook, 1645 [and Charlestown,
Mass., kinsman of Richard, of Concord, Mass. — see Wymans Charlestown
Genealogies]; Nathaniel, of Salisbury ; Philip, of Salisbury; Philip, of
Scarborough ; Richard, of Roxbury ; Richard, of Boston, gunsmith and
pirate ; Robert, of Newport, 1654 ; Samuel, of Charlestown, and Thomas,
of New London, 165 1. Wyman's Charleslotvn mentions also, Moses,
born 1788, and John, married in 1797.
Deacon Ebenezer Griffin, from Cambridge, Mass., of Windham,
Conn., 1733, m- Hannah. Chandler, dau. of Philemon3 (William- m.
Mary Dane ; William1, of Roxbury, 1637) Chandler and Hannah Clary.
For descendants see X. E. His. Gen. Register, XIII, 108.
It is evident that there were a number of later Griffin emigrants, and
some from other countries than Great Britain : Jonathan, b. 1757, from
Dutchess Co. to Quaker Springs, N. Y. ; Jacob, b. 1757, of N. V., whose
father came, 1700, from England and Holland; Smith Griffin, b. 1772,
whose ancestors in Conn, were of Welsh descent, of Westerlo, N. Y., m.
Amelia Stanbrough ; Samuel Griffin * was an original grantee of Hor-
ton, N. S., 1760; Richard, of Middletown, N. Y., about 1790; Ben-
jamin, of Ohio, who m. Clarissa Mather, b. Aug. 10, 1774, and not
unlikely others yet untraced.
* SAMUEL Griffin is supposed to be ancestor of Griffin, who m. Olivia Caro-
line Coaldwel!, b. about 1S14, of Horton, dau. of William Coaldwell and Sarah
Cleveland. William Coaldwell, Coldwell or Caldwell was son of Jonathan, son of
lo2 Jasper Griffin of Southold, N. Y. [Oct.,
]\Iajor Jasper1 Griffin was b. in Wales, 1648 : came to America prior
to 1670. He used a coat of arms which he brought to America, and
which are very similar to those of the heraldic family of Griffin, Penrhyn,
Wales.
Griffin arms : Gules, on a fesse or between three fusils of the second,
each charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first, a demi-quatrefoil between two
gryphons segreant of the first. Crest — A gryphon segreant gules. Motto
— Semper paratus. The helmet above the shield is with the visor closed,
indicating a gentleman's arms, Jasper Griffin bejng a cadet only.
[Burke's Armory gives 10 different Griffin arms.]
Jasper1 Griffin came to Massachusetts before 1670. There is a
notice of him in Essex Co., Mass., in 1670, and in Marblehead, Mass.,
in 1674. In 1675 he came with his young wife [and# not improbably
bringing the three children first named below] to Southold, Suffolk Co.,
Long Island, N. Y. He was a farmer. A man of some importance;
was a major of provincial militia troops ; had two cannon mounted on
the bank [of Long Island Sound ?] in front of his house. A street in
Southold still bears his name. He d. at Southold Apr. 17, 1718, aged
70 years. He m., either in Wales, Eng., or Mass., probably in Mass.,
Hannah [whose maiden-name is not learned], b. at Manchester,
New England, about Aug. 20, 1652, d. Apr. 20, 1699, aged 46 years,
8 months. On her tombstone it is inscribed that she was the mother of
18 children. Of these 18 children it is not unreasonable to conjecture
that there were the below three first named, and the names of the others
have been traced :
+ 2(?)Edward2, said to have been b. ab. 1670 in Wales, supposed to
be of this family.
3(?)James2, brother of above Edward2, and accompanied him from
Wales [according to statement of Smith5 Griffin + 40],
but remained in the British Navy, where he was an officer.
William Cold well, who was b. in south of England about 1695, was pressed into the
British Navy, left the ship in America, came from Connecticut to Horton, d. 1S01,
aged 106 years, m. Abigail Sutherland.
Sarah Cleveland, a dau. of Deacon Benjamin., Cleveland, who was b. in Wind-
ham, Conn., Aug. 30, 1733, of Horton, the Baptist hymn writer, author of the well-
known hymn : "O could I find from day to day," and compiler of a Baptist hymn
book, renowned for his piety, by his first marriage with Mary Elderkin ; son of Ben-
jamins Cleveland, who m. Ann Church, a dan. of John Church and Sarah Beckley ;
son of Aaron- Cleveland (ancestor of Ex-President Grover8 [Rev. Richard Falley7.
William'', Rev. Aaron*, Aaron4, Aaroiia] Cleveland) by his first marriage with Dor-
cas Wilson, a dau. of John Wilson and Hannah his wife ; son of Moses1 Cleveland,
of Woburn, Mass., 1640, who m. Ann Winn, a dau. of Edward Winn and Joanna
his wife.
land arms : Per chevron, sable and ermine, a chevron engrailed counter-
changed. Crest — A demi old man ppr. habited az. having on a cap gu. turned up
with a hair front, holding in the dexter hand a spear, headed ar. on the top of which
is fixed a line ppr. passing behind him, and coiled up in the sinister hand. Motto —
Seme! et semper [once and always].
Winne Wynne [originally Llewelyn, Gwer (Owen) Gwynedd, Prince of N. Wales]
arms : (as cut in relief in stone on the wall of the porch of the Winn Public Library
at Woburn ; this elegant library building and books, built and purchased by a
princely bequest [$200,000] of diaries Bowers8 [Jonathan Bowers7, William6, Tim-
othys, Timothy*, Timothy3, Joseph', Edward1] Winn, of Woburn), Vert, three eagles
displ. in fesse or. Crest — A boar's head gu. couped or.
1 89 1.] Jasper Griffin of South old, N. Y. ig-i
4(?)0badiah2, another stated brother of Edward", with whom he came
from Wales, was also an officer of the British Navy, and
settled in Boston, Mass.
+ 5 Jasper2, b. about 1675, at Southold, N. Y.
6 John2, b. about 1676, at Southold, d. 1714, m. Hannah; descend-
ants are many on L. I. and throughout the U. S. ; ances-
tor of John3, of Riverhead, L, I., and Guilford, Conn., m.
Sarah Paine; James4, b. 1746, m. Nancy Overton, dau. of
Overton and Deborah Priton ; Nathaniel5, b. Mar. 15,
1780, m. Azubah Herrick, desc. of James Herrick, an orig.
settler of Southampton, L. I. ; Rev. Nathaniel Herrick6, b.
Westhampton, L. I., Dec. 28, 1814, prof, in Williams
coll., m. Hannah Elizabeth Bulkley, dau. of Maj. Solo-
mon Bulkley and Mary Wells (desc. of Rev. Peter Bulkley,
of Concord) and had issue : Rev. Edward Herrick7, dean
of Johns Hopkins Univ., Rev. Henry L7., and Solomon
Bulkier7 Griffin, managing editor of Springfield, Mass.,
Republican.
7 Susanna2, b. ab. 1684-5, m. Oct. 3, 1704, Joseph Peck, b. Mar. 20,
1680, son of Joseph Peck, of Lyme, Conn., and Sarah his
wife, third son of Deacon William Peck, one of the founders
of New Haven, Conn., and Elizabeth his wife, of New
Haven, Conn.
8 Robert2, b. 1685, d. 1729. m. Lydia Kirkland, b. Oct. 11, 1685.
of Saybrook, Conn., dau. of Lieut. John Kirkland and
Lydia Pratt, dau. of Lieut. William Pratt. Descendants
live principally on L. I. and at Guilford, Conn. Ancestor
of the following line : Samuel3; James4; Augustus5 Griffin,
b. at Southold, 1767, of Orient, L. I., who in 1857, at
the age of 90, published the remarkable work, Griffin s
Journal, the typographical work mostly the labor ol his
own hands. Ancestor also of Samuel3 ; Elizabeth4 Griffin,
whose, grand-daughter, Miss Clara J. Stone, d. Mar. 25,
1880, of Guilford, compiler of Gtnealogy of the Descendants
of Jasper Griffin.
EDWARD2 GRIFFIN (PJasper1). b. in Wales (so thought) about
1670, said to have settled on Long Island about 1697. Smith5 Griffin
said that his great-grandfather Edward2 came from Wales about 1697,
and was accompanied by two brothers, James and Obadiah ; that James
remained in the British Navy where they had all been officers, that
Obadiah settled in Boston, and Edward on L I. It is possible that
Smith5 hail some of the family traditions mixed. (Mr. Justus A.8 Griffin is
told that there are many descendants of Edward2 in Dutchess Co., and
along the Hudson River, and in New York City, but has not yet suc-
ceeded in getting the address of one of them. They should at once cor-
respond with Mr. Justus A. Griffin, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.) The
name of the wife of Edward2 Griffin is not given. He had at least 5 sons :
+ 9 Edward3, b. 1708.
10 James3, supposed to have d. in Pennsylvania, where he commanded
a garrison.
jq4 Jasper Griffin of Sou/hold, A". Y. [Oct.,
11 Joseph3, settled in Dutchess Co., N. Y., where he d. at an advanced
age, leaving numerous descendants, some of whom emi-
grated to Canada, soon after the Revolution.
12 Jonathan3, settled at White Plains near New York- City, and d.
there ; had no children of his own, but adopted Jonathan
Griffin Tompkins, b. 1737, revolutionary patriot (father of
Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York), to whom lie be-
queathed his large property.
13 Youngest son3 of Edward2, of whom nothing is known, not even
his name.
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JASPER2 GRIFFIN (Jasper1), b. at Southold ab. 1675, farmer; after
his father's decease, 1 7 1 8, he sold his share of the estate, at Southold,
N. Y., to his brother Edward ; removed to Lyme, Conn., and there pur-
chased a tract of land. He lived to be more than 90 years old ; m.
Apr. 29, 1696, Ruth Peck, b. at Lyme, Aug. 19, 1676, dau. of Joseph
Peck, son of Deacon William Peck, of New Haven. Had issue :
14 Jasper3, b. Jan. 28, 1698, m. Mary Reed, of Lyme, and left de-
scendants.
15 Hannah3, b. 1700.
4- 16 Lemuel3, b. 1704, at Southold, N. Y.
17 Nathan3 Griffin.
18 Joseph3 Griffin.
EDWARD3 GRIFFIN (Edward2 ? Jasper1), b. 1708, removed from
Long Island, date unknown, but supposed shortly before the Revolu-
tionary war, as he is reported to have said : ''There will be war, and the
British will land here, so we will remove " ; settled first at White Plains
with his brother Jonathan, but afterwards located at Nine Partners,
Dutchess Co., N. Y., where he d. in 17S5 ; m. Miss Taylor; had
issue :
+ 19 Richard4, b. June 22, 1732.
20 Bridget4, b. March 29, 1734. ) The descendants of these are
21 Susannah4, b. July 24, 1736. [-located in Nova Scotia, N. B.,and
22 Isaiah4, b. July 14, 1738. ) Ontario.
23 Thomas4, b. Feb. 6, 1741, was an officer in the British Army in
Nova Scotia, where he d. ; some of his descendants are still
in N. S.
24 Obadiah4, b. Mar. 9, 1743, removed to Canada 1812, and settled
in Western Ontario, where he d.
25 Amy4, b. March 24, 1746. ^
26 Sarah4 b. January 30, 1748. . I The descendanls of these
27 Marian4, b May 3, 1749. ■ ^seUled in the Hl]dson Va,_
28 Elizabeth* b December 25, 1752. U New York State, etc.
29 Gf.rsiiom4, b. April 1, 1755. I
30 Jonathan4, b. May 11, 1757. J
1891.] Jasper Griffin of Southold, N. V. joe
16.
LEMUEL3 GRIFFIN (Jasper2, Jasper'), b. at Southold 1704 ; farmer,
m. Phoebe Comstock, who was probably of Lyme, Conn., a woman of
rare grace and artistic taste. Their sons were :
+ 31 Geokoe4, b. July 10, 1734, East Haddam, Conn.
32 Lemuel4 Griffin.
19.
RICHARD4 GRIFFIN (Edward3, Edward2), b. June 22, 1732, emi-
grated to Canada in 178S with n of his 12 children, settled in Grimsby
tp., Lincoln Co. (in what was then called Niagara District), Ontario, d.
there in 1794, m. Mary Smith, b. in Connecticut, a dau. of Judge Abra-
ham Smith' a judge in New York. They had issue :
33 Amelia5, b. in 175S,' m. Richard Slater.
34 AiiKAHAM5, b. Apr. 16, 1760, soldier war 18 12, d. May 14, 1818.
35 Bethiah5, b. 1762, m. firstly, S. Hill, son of Capt. Hill, secondly,
Dr. Myers.
36 Edward5, b. 1764, a soldier in the war of 181 2, d. at Smithville,
Ont...Sep. 13, 1862.
37 Nathaniel?, b. 1760, was a soldier in the war of 181 2.
38 Marian5, b. 1768, married a Mr. Meredith.
39 Isaiah* b. Apr. 24. 1 77 1 , was a soldier in the war of 1 S 1 2, d. at
W aterdown, Ont., Apr. 12, 1865.
+ 40 Smith5, b. August 9, 1772.
41 Jonathan5, b. 1774. soldier, d. on the field, some time during the
war of 181 2-14.
42 Elizabeth5, b. 1 7 76.
43 Makv5, b. 1778, d. in 1880 in her 103d year, m. Isaac Wardle.
44 Richard5, b. 1780, d. at Smithville, Ont., 1807.
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GEORGE4 GRIFFIN (Lemuel3, Jasper, Jasper1), b. at East Had-
dam, Conn., July 10, 1734; lived at E. Haddam, fanner. "George
Griffin was a man of strong mental ability, of rare judgment, and decided
character. He endeavored to develop the menial powers of his children,
..iving them subjects to write upon, and not infrequently required
from them poetical effusions." — From Sprague's Memoirs of Rev.
Edward Dorr Griffin. lie d. Aug. 6, 1814; both he ami his wife are
buried in the Old Cemetery at North Lyme, New London Co., Conn. He
married March 9, 1762, Eve Dorr, b. at Lyme, Conn., March 4, 1733,
. v!>r. 3, 1814, a lady of much natural artistic talent and skill ; th
untaught she painted landscapes and decorated her home with tapestry
woven by her own hands ; she was dau. of Edmund Dorr* and Mar) Gris-
the dau. of Matthew Griswold, f of Lyme, and Fhebe Hyde, dau. of
nund2 Dorr, b. at Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 16, 1692, a man of mind and in-
domitable perseverance, had a lengthy eccle.-ia.stical controversy with Rev, Jonathan
Parsons, of Lyme ; son of Edward1 Dorr, of Roxbury, and Elizabeth Hawley, dau. of
Thomas Hawley, of Roxb., by second wife, Mis. Dorothy (Harbottle) Lamb, wid. of
Thomas Lamb, of R.
{Matthews Griswold, son of Matthew2 Griswold, of Windsor, Conn , 1630, and
Ann Wolcott ; son of George1 Griswold of Kenilworth, Eng. Ann1? Wolcott, the dau.
14
Io6 Jasper Griffin of Sou/hold, N. Y. [Oct.,
Samuel Hyde* and Jane Lee, the dan. of Thomas Lee and Brown.
George4 Griffin had issue :
45 Mary5, b. June 15, 1763. m. her third cousin Nathan Hibbert
Jewett, son of David Jewett and Sarah Selden, of East Had-
dam ; descendants in N. V., Conn., etc.
46 Livia5, b. Oct. 12, 1764, m. Sept. 26, 1791, Barzilla Beckwith, son
of Barzilla Beckwith and Mary Butler, of E.. Had., the son of
Rev. George Beckwith, of N. Lyme, a descendant of Matthew
Beckwith, b. in Eng., 1610, of New London, 1652, Hart-
ford and Lyme. Their descendants are numerous.
47 Col. Josiah5, b. June 7, 1766, col. of militia, judge of the county
court, member of Conn, legislature, lived and d. at East
Haddam, m. Feb. 21, 1791, Dorothy Gates, b. June 6,
1767, dau. of Timothy Gates and Hannah Percival, of E.
Haddam. Descendants still reside at E. Haddam.
48 Phcebe5, b. May 4, 1768, d. Nov. 25, 1S41, m. Nov. 25, 1794,
her third cousin Joseph Lord, b. June 3, 1757, d. March
15, 181 2, son of Capt. Enoch Lord and Hepsibah Marvin
of Lyme, the dau. of Joseph Marvin and Jane Lay. Capt.
Enoch Lord, the son of Richard Lord (son of Lieut.
Richard Lord, of Lyme) and Elizabeth Lynde, dau. of
Nathaniel Lynde and Susannah Willoughby, of Saybrook,
Conn. They had several children, of whom only one :
Phcebt*' Lord, who m. Daniel Noyes, of Stonington and
Lyme, left descendants.
+ 49 Edward Dorr5, b. January 6, 1770.
50 Lucy5, b. March 21, 1773, d. Dec. 9, 1852, m. Jan. 14,. 1806,
Rev. Elijah Gardner Welles, b. at New Hartford, Litch-
field Co., Conn., Feb. 3, 1780 ; many descendants in St.
Louis, Mo., and Western cities.
51 Elizabeth5, b. Feb. 23, 1775, d. March 12, 1847, m- firstly, in
1800, Montgomery Austin, b. 177S, d. in 1808, son of
Judge Aaron Austin, of Litchfield Co., Conn., and Esther
Kellogg, of New Hartford. She m. secondly, in 1811,
Rev. John Wilder, b. 1757, of Attleborough, Bristol Co.,
Mass., d. Feb. 9, 1836. Had issue by both marriages;
descendants live in Mass., Ohio, etc,
+ 52 George5, b. Jan. 14, 1778, at East Haddam, Conn.
40.
Capt. and Rev. SMITH5 GRIFFIN (Richard4 Edward' Edward-),
b. at Nine Partners, or Partures, Dutchess co., N. Y., Aug. 9, 1772,
of Henry16 (John's, Thomas1*, Thomas's, William12, William11, Roger10, John", John8.
Thomas?, Sir John6, of WoJcott, Eng., 13S2, the grantee of the Arms : Cross with
fleur-de-lis — one of the very few coats that an American family is legally entitled to
use ; JohnS, Sir Philip*, Roger', Jerean2, Sir John1) Wolcott, Bap. Lydiard, Somer-
setshire, Eng., 1578, of Dorchester and Windsor, and Elizabeth Saunders, dau. of
Thomas Saundei
::: Samuel2 Hyde, ancestor of Ex-Pres. Grover Cleveland, the great grandson of
Rev. Aaron Cleveland and his first wife AbiahS (James* m. Sarah Marshall, dau. of
Marshall and Abiah Hough, John3 m. Experience Abel, dau. of Caleb Abel,
of Norwich, Conn., and Margaret Post) Hyde, and son of William1 Hyde from
Eng., 1633, an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn., 1636, and of Norwich, 1660.
1 891.] Jasper Griffin 0/ Sou/hold, K V.
97
emigrated to Canada with his father in 1788, and settled in Grimsby tp.,
Lincoln co., Ont., where the village of Smithville now stands. He made
his home in Smithville during the active years of his life, and carried on
a large mercantile and manufacturing business with branches in othei
villages and towns. Was captain of a militia company during the war of
1 81 2-14, and took part in the battle of Lundy's Lane and other engage-
ments. After the war he was ordained local preacher of the Methodist
Church. Was a Justice of the Peace, and for many years the only Magis-
trate in a large district. For some years he was one of three commis-
sioners appointed to investigate the claims in connection with Welland
Canal; d. in Brantford tp., Ont., Sept. 28, 1849, m- firstly, Eleanor Cul-
ver or Colver, she d. 18 12, dau. of Ebenezer Culver, Esq., the son of
Rev. Jabez Culver. He m. secondly, June 14, 1 S 1 4, Harriet Douglas, a
dau. of Wheeler Douglas, and a cousin of Hon. Stephen Arnold Doug-
las, the great grandson of Benajah Douglas, son of William Douglas
and Sarah Proctor, son of William Douglas and. Abiah Hough, son
ot William Douglas of Boston, 1640, New London, 1660, and Ann
Marble, dau. of Thomas Marble of Ringstead, Eng. , son of Robert
Douglas, b. 1588, of Scotland. Smith5 Griffin by his first marriage had
issue :
+ 53 Ebenezer Culver6, b. Feb. 16, 1800, at Smithville, Ont.
54 Elizabeth6, b. Nov. 20, 1801, d. at Sylvania, Lucas co., O., Aug.
25, 1889, m. Rev. Elijah Warren.
55 Mary6, b. Oct. 15, 1803, d. at Brantford, Ont., Jan. 29, 1889.
56 Absalom6, b. Dec. 7, 1805, was partner with his brother Ebenezer
G in building and operating mills, and as merchant; d. at
Watertown, Ont., Apiil, 1863.
57 Henry6, b. Dec. 30, 1807, residing 1891 in Grand Haven, Ottawa
co., Mich.
By the second marriage there was following issue :
58 Douglas6, b. March 24, 1815, d. 1879.
Minerva6, b. June 4, 1817, d. 1S17.
59 Alanson6, b. Oct. 15, 1819, living at Brantford.
60 Sutherland6, b. July 9, 1822, living in Minnesota.
61 Cyrus R.6, b. May 11, 1824, lives at Brantford.
Martha Ann6, b. June 19, 1S26, d. Dec. — 1S34.
62 Samuel Stewart6, b. March 2, 1829, ^ves m ^ew Zealand.
Content6, b. Mar. 4, d. Oct., 183 1.
63 Alvin Torry6, b. Dec. 7, 1832, d. June — 1849.
64 Harriet Victoria6, b. Jul}-, 1837, d. 1869, m. Mr. Lawrence.
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Rev. EDWARD DORR5 GRIFFIN, D.D. (George4 Lemuel' Jasper
JAs^er1). b. Jan. 6, 1770, grad. Yale 1790, Congregational pastor at New
Hartford, Conn., Newark, N. J., Boston, received D.D. from Union
college 1S08, was Bartlett Professor of Pulpit Eloquence at Andover, was
15 years President of Williams college, author of several religious works ;
d. Nov. 8, 1837, m. May 17, 1796, Frances Huntington, b. Coventry,
Tolland co., Conn., Sep. 14, 1769. d. July 25, 1837, sister of Gov.
S.imuel Huntington, of Ohio, dau. of Rev. Joseph Huntington, niece
and adopted dau. of Gov. Samuel Huntington, of Norwich, Conn, (sons
igg Jasper Griffin oj Sou/hold, N. F. [Oct.,
of Nathaniel Huntington), and Hannah Devotion, dan. of Rev. Ebenezer
Devotion of Windham, Conn., son of Rev. Ebenezer Devotion of Suffield,
Hartford co., Conn., son of John Devotion and Hannah his wife, son
of Edward Devotion and Mary his wife of Brookline, Norfolk co., Mass.,
1645. He had issue :
65 Frances Louisa6, b. April 4, 1801, d. Jan. 11, 1852 ; poetess and
authoress, m. Nov. 20, 1823, Dr. Lyndon A. Smith of
Newark, N. J., and left descendants.
66 Ellen Maria6, b. Jan. 10, 18 10, m. Rev. Dr. Robert Crawford,
and left descendants.
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GEORGE6 GRIFFIN, LL.D. (George4 Lemuel3 Jasper2 Jasper1),
b. at East Haddam, Conn., Jan. 14, 1778, grad. Yale, 1797, Litchfield
Law School, lawyer, received LL.D. from Columbia college, New York
City, 1837. Began to practice law at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne co., Penn.,
and in 1806 removed to the City of New York. He soon took that posi-
tion at the bar which he maintained for more than half a century. In a
speech delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Supreme Court,
celebrated at New York, Mr. Justice Field, in speaking of the great New
York lawyers of his own younger days, put the name of Mr. George
Griffin first in the list. After retiring from the bar Mr. Griffin wrote and
published two theological works : The Sufferings oj Christ and 7 he
Gospel ils own Advocate. He d. at New York, May 6, i860; he and his
wife are buried in the Marble Cemetery, New York City. He m. at
Wilkes-Barre, July 3, 1801, Lydia Butler b. at Wilkes-Barre, Oct. 2, 1783,
d. at New York, May 1, 1864, youngest dau. of Col. Zebulon Butler*
*Col. Zehulon3 Butler, U. S. A., b. at Lyme, Conn., 1731, an officer in the
French and Indian war, was leader, 1769, of the colony from Connecticut which
settled the Valley of Wyoming, Penn., was in command of the American forces at
the Massacre of Wyoming ; Col. Z. Butler was by Gen. George Washington put in
command at West Point, N. Y., after the attempted treason of Arnold — see Allen s
Biographical Dictionary ; Miner's History of Wyoming. This gallant soldier and
estimaule citizen d. July 2S, 1795, interment in t lie graveyard in Wilkes-Barre ; Col.
Butler m. firstly, in Conn., Mi>s Anna Lord ; secondly, Miss Lydia Johnson, dau. of
the first Gospel minister of Wyoming ; thirdly, while on duty at West Point, Miss
Phoebe Ilaight. By the first marriage there was issue :
Gen. Lonl4 Puller d., m. the daughter of Abel Pierce, Esq., and had issue :
Pierce Butler had a fine plantation between Wyoming and Kingston.
Johns Butler, Chester^ Butler, and Lords Butler, all active business men of Wilkes-
Barre.
Rev. ZebulonS Butler, Presbyterian pastor, Port Gibson, Miss^
SylvinaS Butler the eldest dau. d., m. Hon. Garrick Mallery.
Ruth Amp Butler m. lion. John N. Conyngham, president judge of Wyoming
judicial district.
rhebeS Butler m. Dr. Donalson, rem. to Iowa.
The daughter* of Col. X Butler, by his first marriage, m. Col. Roswell Welles, a
lawyer of ability, judge ; one of their daughters : Harriets Welles m. Col.
< iwles of Farmington, Hartford co., Conn.
By 1 lie second marriage of Col. Zebulon Butler there was issue :
Capt. Zebulon4 Butler d. in the prime of life ; his numerous and interesting family
are widely scattered.
By the third marriage of Col. Zebulon Butler there was issue of whom the follow-
ing three were living, 1845 :
Steuben4 Butler of Wilkes-Barre, editor of the Wyoming Herald.
Lydia4 Butler, b. Oct. 2, 17S3, ni. George Griffin ; and Mrs. Ann4 Butler Robinson,
1 89 1.] Jasper Griffin of Southold, A'. Y. igg
and his third wife Phoebe Haight of Fishkil!, Dutchess co., N. Y. They
had issue :
67 Francis6, b. Nov. 26, 1802, grad. Yale, 1820; one of the most prom-
inent and popular members of the bar of New York City ;
d. at New York, July 12. 1852, is buried at Greenwood ;
m. Nov. 27, 1829, Mary Ichabod Sands, who d. in Dresden,
Germany, March 9, 1888, dau. of Joseph Sands (of the L.
Island Sands family) and Theresa his wife. After decease
of her husband she removed to Dresden, where she pub-
lished for private circulation, 8 Volumes of Travels and
Novels; she founded and endowed liberally an orphan
Asylum at Dresden ; she d. at the house of her youngest
dau., Emily Seaton (Griffin) Von Lengwicke. Descend-
ants live at N. Y. city, Paris, France, etc.
68 Rev. Edmund Dorr6 Griffin, b. Sept. 10, 1804 ; grad. Columbia
college, N. Y. city, with the highest honors of his class, at
the age of 17 ; grad. N. Y. Theol. Seminary, 1825 ; Epis-
copal clergyman ; poet ; travelled extensively in Europe.
His head was as classically handsome as that of Byron. At
time of his early death he was filling the chair of belles-
lettres at Columbia College; d. at New York, Sept. 1,
1830. unmarried.
69 Ellen6, b. Feb. 15, 1807, d. Dec. 9, 1823, unmarried.
Caroline Ann6, b. May 7, 1S09, d. Apr. 23, 18 10.
70 George6, b. Feb. 25, 181 1, grad. Williams College, 1832 ; en-
gaged in farming at Kaatskill, N. Y., where he d., 1SS0 ; he
m. firstly, Anne Augusta Neilson, she d. March 20, 1841,
dau. of fames Neilson and Malvina Forman of New Bruns-
wick, Middlesex co., N. J. He m. secondly, May 20,
1845, Mary Augusta Cooke, she d. Aug. 19, 184S, dau. of
Judge Apollos Cooke of Kaatskill. He m. thirdly, Oct.
14, 1 85 1, Elizabeth Frances Benson, b. March 2, 1820,
dau. of Abraham Benson of Fairfield, Conn. His widow
resides, 1891, at Elizabeth, Union co.. N. J. There was
issue by all three marriages.
+ 71 Charles Alexander6, b. Nov. 8, 1S14, in New York City.
72 Caroline Lydia6, b. March 1, 1820, d. May 10, 1861, unm.
73 Ellen Ann6, b. Feb. 6, 1826, d. Nov. 30, 1831.
53-
EBENEZER CULVER6 GRIFFIN (Smith5 Richard* Edwards Ed-
ward2) b. at Smithville, Ont., Feb. 16, 1800; settled in East Flamboro
tp. , Wentworth Co., Ont., where the village of Waterdown now stands.
whose late husband, John Robinson, Esq., was a direct descendant of the
pilgrim minister. Their only daughter m. Hon. H. B. Wright, Speaker of
the House of Assembly of Penn., and. for many terms, a Rep. in U. S.
Congress.
Col. Zebulon^ Butler was eldest son of John2 Butler of Lyme and Hannah Per-
kins, son of Lieut. William1 Butler, b. ab. 1653, from England, of Ipswich. Mass.,
who m. 1675, Sarah. Arms of Rutler, or Boteler {Kent, Eng.)\ Sa. three cups
covered or, within a bordure of the last. Crest — A covered cup or, betw. two wings
the dexter or, the other az.
2CO Jasper Griffin of Sou/hold, X. Y. [Oct.,
In 1 82 1 he purchased 400 acres of land, built a saw mill and a woolen
factory, and, in partnership with his brother Absalom, built a grist mill
and a second saw mill. The two brothers also carried on a mercantile
business. These enterprises built up a thriving village. Like his father
he was, for many years, the only magistrate in his neighborhood, and all
local cases were tried before him. He had the name of being very leni-
ent; he d. at Waterdown, Oct. 15, 1847 ; he m. 1821, Eliza Kent, she d.
Jan. 15, 1848, dau. of William Kent, Esq.,* of Saltfleet tp., Wentworth
Co., Ont. They had issue :
73 James Kent7, b. Feb., 1823, resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.
4-74 George Douglas', b. Aug. 12, 1824.
75 Rev. William Smith7 Griffin, b. 1826, Methodist minister, living
at Stratford, Ont.
76 Dr. Egerton Ryerson7, b. Mar. 17, 1828, physician, living at
Btantford, Ont.
77 Eleanor Rebecca7, b. June 1, 1831, m. John Nellis, res. Mt.
Clemens, Macomb Co., Mich.
78 Franklin M.7, b. June 10, 1833, became a lawyer, d. at Brant-
ford, Ont., June 4, 1877.
79 Watsox Ebenezer7, b. 1835, now a banker in Nevada. Charles7,
b. 1837, d. 1 84 1 ; Caroline7, b. 1840, d. 1841.
80 Eliza Augusta7, b. June 1, 1S42, m. Wesley Spokes, res. in An-
caster, Ont.
81 Hervey Augustus7, b. April 10, 1S44, now editor of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Leader.
71.
CHARLES ALEXANDER6 GRIFFIN (George* George4 Lemuel
Jasper Jasper1), b. in the city of New York, Nov. 8, 1814; grad. Williams
Coll. 1833, and at Yale Law School 1835; practiced law in New York
City, living in the later years of his life at New Brighton, Richmond Co.,
Staten Island, N. Y., where he d. Oct. 6, 1859; he m. Oct. 26, 1836,
Pastora Jacoba De Forest, b. at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South
America, Dec. 30, 18 15, youngest dau. of David Curtis De Forest f and
'■■' William Kent, brother to the Countess de Puisage, a noted beauty in the early
days of this century, whose husband, Gen. Count Joseph de Puisage, came lo Canada
in charge of a colony of French gentlemen who settled in Upper Canada, now Ontario,
and induced his brother-in-law to settle there also. He himself bought, in 1799, Mr.
Sheehan's place on the Niagara River, between Queenstown and the Fort, and had a
house in York, now Toronto. He imported trees and shrubs, and intended to build
a windmill. The Count's gold-mounted sword bears this inscription: "Given by
William Pitt to General Count Joseph de Puisage, 1794, and by him to Mr. William
Kent. 1827."
f Hon. David Curtis6 De Forest, b. at Huntington, Fairfield Co., Conn., in early
life went to South America, was a merchant at Buenos Ayres, where he amassed a
considerable fortune. He returned as first Consul General of the Argentine Republic
to the United States in 1818, bringing his family, settled at New Haven, Conn., and
built the house still standing corner of Church and Elm streets. In 1823 he founded
four livings at Yale for the benefit of the De Forest family. He is the donor of the
/>■■ Forest Gold Medal, the highest under-graduate honor obtainable at the University;
he d. at New Haven. 1823 (George Butler Griffin possesses portraits of Hon. David
Curtis6 De Forest and wife, painted by S. F. 15. Morse); son of Benjamins I »e Forest,
son of Benjamin4 De Forest, son of David3 I )e Forest, son of Isaac- I>e Forest, b. at
Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616, who with his brother Henri came to New Amsterdam
I.
891.]
fasper Griffin of Sou/hold, N. Y.
201
Julia Wooster, a dau. of Dr. Wooster, of Huntington, and later of New-
Haven. Mrs. Pastora J. (I)e Forest) Griffin resides 1891 at Santa Bar-
bara, Cal. They had issue, all b. in the city of New York :
+ 82 George Butler7, b. September 8, 1840.
o Caroline Lydia7, ) , c . T^ tQ<-> d. N. Y. city, Dec. 7, 1844.
83 Ellen Anne7, f b" ^ ^ l842> Miss Ellen A.7 Griffin re-
sides at Santa Barbara, Cal., 1S91.
S4 Charles De Forest7, b. Sept. 17, 1844, d. at Clifton Springs,
Ontario Co., N. Y., July 8, 1863.
74-
GFORGE DOUGLAS7 GRIFFIN (Ebenezer Culver6 Smith3 Richard4
Edwards Edward2), b. Aug. 12, 1824; bought his father's woolen mill, which
he operated till he was burned out in 1850; has since been engaged in
other manufacturing enterprises, am! has done some literary work ; pub-
lished an illustrated temperance paprjr, i860, published and edited the
Canadian Quarterly Review, 1864-6, and has contributed many articles on
financial ami trade matters to the daily and weekly press of the country;
resides, 1890-1, at Parkdale, a suburb of Toronto, Out. ; m. May 30, 1845,
Cynthia A. Williams, dau. of Justus W. Williams,* Esq., J. P., of Oak-
ville, Ont. They had issue :
+ 85 Justus Alonzo8, b. June 6, 1846, at Waterdown, Ont.
Ann Eliza8, b. May 24, d. 25, 1848.
36 Horatio Milfokd8, b. April 10, 1849, now a manufacturer, Gait,
Ont.
87 Emma A.8, b. June 12, 1853.
88 Charles Henry8, b. Jan. 24, 1856, was 18 years in the Solicitor's
Office, G. T. R.,"d. at Belleville, Ont, Jan, 30, 1889.
89 Ida E.8, b. September 22, 1858.
90 Ebenezer Watson8, b. Nov. 4, i860, now managing editor of
Montreal Weekly Star and Family Herald ; author of the novel
l\cok, and of many magazine articles (of several in the Maga-
zine of American History). In Feb., 1S90, he lectured befcre
the Geographical Society of New York, in Chickering Hall,
a report of the lecture appearing in the Society's Quarterly for
Sept., 1890.
in 1636. and founded Harlem, N. Y., was magistrate, alderman, great burgher, and
councillor of the colony ; a wealthy and important citizen, he m. at Harlem, Sarah
de Trieux, who was, like himself, of a Protestant Walloon family; he was son of
Je ■■' De Forest, b. at Avernes, France, in 1575, who was leader of the first Walloon
colony from Holland, which planted New Amsterdam and Albany, N. X . Recent
investigations in the Dutch archives establish the date of his commission from the
States General, and other particulars, all going to show that HE was THE FOUNDER
ok THE City OF New YORK ; he d. in New Amsterdam in 1025. The ancestry of
Jose1 he Forest has been traced up to the feudal Lords of Forest, and remounts to
the Knight Herbert de Forest, who went with Godfrey de bouillon to the first cru-
sade in 1096.
Arms of De Forest: Argent, three crescents, sable; two in chief, one at point.
Crest — A monkey proper, holding to his mouth an apple gules. Motto — Trith.
* Justus W.a Williams, grandson of Maj. John Chester6 Williams, an officer in the
army of Washington, and a descendant (3th generation) of Robert1 Williams, who
came from Norwich, Norfolk Co., Eng., with his first wife, Elizabeth Stratton, was
of Roxbury, Mass., 1637.
202 Jasper Griffin of Sou/hold, N. Y. [Oct.,
91 George Alexander8, b. June 1, 1863, now in Costa Rica, Central
America.
92 John Williams8, b. Oct. 8, 1865; d. Mav 22, 1885
Chester Ernest8, b. July 20, 1868; d. March 10, 1872.
93 Alvin Douglas8, b. September 18, 1871.
82.
GEORGE BUTLER? GRIFFIN (Charles Alexander6 George5 George4
Lemuel3 Jasper2 Jasper1), b. in the city of New York, Sept. 8, 1840: was
educated at the grammar school of Columbia College, and at that college
until the junior year. He became a civil engineer, and was, in 1857, in
the service of the State of New York. In 1857-8 took part, as acting
midshipman, in the U. S. Atrato survey for an inter-oceanic canal to the
southward of the Isthmus of Darien ; in 1859-60 was assistant engineer
in Mexico, in the service of the Louisiana-Tehuantepec company. After
his father's decease he studied law at the Yale Law School and the University
of Albany, where he graduated. He was admitted to the bar of New York,
before graduation, in May, 1861. Removed to Davenport, Scott Co., la.,
on his marriage, practiced law, returned to Albany, N. Y., in 1862 ; be-
came treasurer of the Watervliet Railway Co., and was, for two terms,
treasurer of the Young Men's Association of Albany. His wife's health
failing, he removed to St. Paul, Minn.; continued to reside in Minn., la.,
and 111., and in 1866-7 was assistant engineer in charge of the U. S. Survey
for a ship-canal from Chicago to the Mississippi River. In 1867 he went
to the U. S. of Colombia, S. A., where he became Engineer-in-Chief — with
the rank of Lieut. -Colonel — in the service of that government. Resigning
thai position in 1869, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Buenaven-
tura RR., and succeeded in finding a practicable route from the Cauca
Valley to the Pacific Ocean. His name was given to the spur of the Cor-
dillera which his line followed. Later he was- appointed State Engineer
of the State of Antioquia, and resigned that office in order to make a visit
to the U. S. in 1874. On returning to Colombia he became a planter and
an exporter of tobacco, etc. Forced by a revolution to leave Colombia in
Dec, 1876, he came to San Francisco in Jan., 1877, arriving with a wife
and three children and without funds. Utilizing his extensive knowledge
of Spanish- \merican history, and of the Spanish, French, and Italian
languages, he was for three years a translator and writer in the Bancroft
Library, and assisted in preparing the works of Mr. H. H. Bancroft for
the press. In July, 1880, he was summoned by telegraph to his sister, who
was seriously ill at Rome, Italy, whence he brought her home in the fall
of 1880. On his way back he met in Philadelphia, Penn.. the late James
B. Eads, C. E.. and accompanied him to Mexico as Chief-of-Staff, and
aided in obtaining from the Mexican government a concession for the con-
struction of the inter-oceanic ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec. On their return to New Orleans, in January, 188 1, Col. Griffin
was sent at the head of a corps of engineers to make a survey of the bar
of Tampico and the mouth of the Panuco River with a view to its improve-
ment by the jetty system. This work finished, he returned to California,
became division engineer in the Atlantic and Pacific RR., and made an
exhaustive examination of the passes of the Sierra Nevada, leading from
the Mojave Desert plains to the San Joaquin Valley, and located the line.
1 89 '.] Jasper Griffin of Southold, X. Y. 20^
Col. Griffin had removed his family from San Francisco to Los Angeles,
Cal., and learning of the death of a daughter, of whose illness he had been
entirely unawares, he abandoned engineering, settled at Los Angeles, and
resumed the practice of law, the examination of land titles, and non-liti-
gated cases, an affection of the throat preventing his speaking for any
length of time. During the past twenty years Col. Griffin has published
in the magazines of the day articles in prose, and some poems. — among
them translations from the classics and from the Spanish. He has a
library of over 3,000 volumes, and a choice collection of paintings, and
one of the most admired gardens of Los Angeles. After serving some
time as First Vice-President. Col. Griffin was. in January, 1891, elected for
1891 President of the Historical Society of Southern California; is a
member of the Huguenot Society of America; is a director of the East
Side Bank, Los Angeles, and of the South Riverside Coal Co.; in politics,
a Democrat; and takes an active interest in national and local affairs.
Hem. firstly, Nov. 26, 1861, Sara Edwards, b. March 11, 184 1, d. at St.
Paul, Minn., March 20, 1866, youngest dau. of Judge James Edwards
and Susan Tabor of Albany, N. Y. He m. secondly, at Buga, in the
State of Cauca, Oct. 26, 1870, Eva Guadalupe Garcia de la Plaza, b. at
Palmira, Cauca, Dec. 12, 1850, youngest dau. of Judge Manuel Maria
Garcia tie la Plaza, Doctor of Civil Law, and Maria Engracia Gi de Te-
jada. Issue by first marriage :
94 Llewellyn Edwards3, b. Sept. 5, 1862, at Davenport, la. ; d. at
Albany, N. V., July 25, 1864.
95 Edmund Dorr8, b. Jan. 23, 1865, at Albany; d. at St. Paul, Minn.,
April 26, 1866.
Issue by second marriage :
96 Eva Rosa8, b. June 19, 1872, at the Villa de la Candelaria de
Medellin, Antioquia, U. S. of Colombia. Miss Griffin has
shown marked ability — even genius — as a sculptress and in
painting ; in 1887 this lady completed a bust of her brother,
a work which was awarded two first premiums; and has re-
cently executed a profile in relief of her father (of which we
have a photograph); and is, 1S90-1, engaged on a statue of
Junipero Sena, founder of California, and one of her ancestor,
Jesse De Forest, founder of New York.
97 Pastora Engracia8, b. May 29, 1874. at the same city.
98 Helena MakiV, b. May 19, 1876, at Palmira, Colombia.
99 Georgina Lvdia", b. April 23, 1878, at San Francisco, Cal.
100 Francisca Julia8, b. April 30, 1880, at San Francisco; d. at Los
Angeles, Nov. 26, 188 1.
101 Jasper8, b. June 26, 1883, at Los Angeles, Cal.
102 Clementina Ruth3, b. Sept. 7, 1886, at Los Angeles, Cal.
103 Carolina Alma De Forest8, b Feb. 25, 1889, at Los Angeles.
JUSTUS ALONZO8 GRIFFIN (George Douglas' Ebenezer Culver'
Smith5 Richard4 Edwards Edward3 PJasper1). b. at Waterdown, Ont. , June 6,
1846; resided, in 1871-3, in Winnipeg, Manitoba; returned in 1873 to
Hamilton, Ont., where he still resides, 189!, No. 58 King William Street,
and has always engaged in the printing and publishing business. Mr.
1
■*■
)
204 Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London. [Oct.,
Griffin is now gathering material for a complete History of the Griffin
Family in America, and it is important that; all of the Griffin name or de-
scent communicate with him immediately. He m. June 30, 1880, Miss
Sara Acheson, dau. of Mr. John Acheson, of Hamilton, formerly of New-
town, Hamilton, Ireland. They have had issue :
10+ Bertha Acheson9, b. June 15, 1881; d. Aug. 3, 1881.
105 Ruth Moore9, b. Nov. 26, 1885.
WEDDINGS AT ST. MARY, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON,
FROM AD. i6t6 TO 1625.
Communicated by John V. L. Pruyn.
(Continued from Vol. XXII., p. 77, of The Record.)
30, Sidrach Smith and Mary Pett.
30, Thomas Hayes and Elizab : Johnson.
October 162 I.
5, William Greene and Amey Keymishe.
8, Thomas White and Joane Allam.
9, John Baynesand Alice Phillips.
[blank], John Mathewes and Katheren Hudday.
10, Thomas Beadle and Anne Orpinn.
13 Thomas Gryphin and Alice Humfrey.
i 7, Roberte Midleton and Alice Diamond.
17, Thomas Thomas and Edith Faulkener.
23, Tvmothy Tompson and Rebeca Warde.
24, Nicholas Kayes and Katherin Homes.
28, Thomas Jackson and Amey brewer.
28, Chediock Pinder and Mary Ilarvye.
28, John Hawkins and Mary Kirke.
30, John Wichfeild and Susan Lawne.
31, fohn Packer and Katherin Brankin.
51, Thorn. is Hartcastle and Margaret Metcalfe.
November 162 1.
1, William Phillips and Mary Thomas.
4, Mathew Rushforth and Alice James.
4, William Nipping and Agnes Evans.
[Blank, ] William Jione and Frances Hayes.
14, Tytus Mellsam and Anne Saund
14, Henry Thompson and Alice Cresswell.
15, William Rowles and Ellyn West.
19, Tho : Hudday and Margaret Chower.
21, ffraucis ffowler and Alice Wepharo.
26, Tho : Mince and Ami'' Becke.
26, William Storky and Margaret Crome.
30, Sidrach Miller and Rebecah Langford.
Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapcl, London. 20:
December 162 1.
Robert Stayner and Judith Bed 1 owe.
John Johnson and Joane Bliforde.
Peter Lerefaict and Judith Harris.
Edward Stagwell and Klizab : Brenton.
Richard ffeewaters and Judith Harris.
Christopher Lewby and Sissely Hough.
fflashey Cocney and Anne Barnett.
January 162 1.
Alexander Williams and Elizab : White.
William Sturdy and Susan Atkins.
Anthony Roberts and Emrae Cooke.
Richard Wright and Anne Styles.
John VVorthington & Barberah Cole.
James Benson and Agnes Groue.
ffebruary 162 1.
Edward Gresnal and Anne Howse.
e Allen and Margaret Swanton.
Francis Burbeck and Margaret Thornell.
William Perkes and Anne Wallis.
Nicholas Robinson and Agnes Currant.
Nicholas Armstrong and Sarah Honnywell.
Andrew Purdy and Dorithy Drackett.
March 1621.
William Leake and Awdry Cadmer.
Thomas Mulbisse & Vrsula Darling.
William Gervasse and Mary Bird.
Tho : Faulkner and Jane Samuell.
William Barker am! Joane Palmer.
Thomas Betts and Honer Knight.
Nathaniell Hutchinson and Fresam Felton.
Richard Mawson and Mary Hill.
Hall and Joane Maior.
John Scampion and Elizabeth Ryme.
James Stonhowse and Margaret Griffin.
April 1622.
John Walters and Bathsheba Chappell.
Phillip Bisshop and Mary Norton.
Henry Norri.s and Elizabeth Mynett.
Mathew Newby and Mary Clarke.
May 1622.
Richard Martin and Joane Katherns.
Ambrose Andrewes & Jane Asmotherlaw.
1 Williams and Mary Bembrick.
rge Archer and Anne Thorley.
Robart Amisse and Margaret Rutlingam.
Thomas Stebbing and Grace Michell.
John Day and Alice Robinson.
Thomas Wight and RachgJJ Mathewes.
Robert. Scott and Elizab r Haxwood.
Edward Harberd & Margaret Norris.
Thomas Beard and Ann Kennvnge.
2o6
Weddings at St. Mary, Wlutechapel, London.
[Oct.
19.
'9.
21
26,
30.
8,
17.
23.
23.
24;
26,
29.
.29,
30,
s,
16,
22,
5,
8,
1 1
I2>
13.
1 .
22,
2),
= 7,
28,
3-
23.
24,
30.
3.
IO,
20,
? I
26,
George ffrye and Anne Parncl1.
Richard Hay and Elizabeth Vause.
John Bernard and Joane Martin.
Charles Mullam and Joane Skerrett.
John Simmons and Mary Busby.
June 1622.
William Bird and Thomazin Goqdfellow.
Nathaniel! Russell & Joane AJlforde,
Edward Landsdell and Joane Browne.
Robert Nichollson & Dorithy Gae.
Thomas Smith & Mary Moysies.
Edward Vnatt & Dorithy Bou-yer.
Edward Powell ct Margaret Price.
Thomas Damarill and Elizab : Taylor.
Abraham Payne A Hester Seabery.
Henry Skerratt and Susan Greenloe.
July 1622.
Timothy Five & Mary Pnrehas.
Stephen Payne & Susan Bett.
William Chapped & Ellyn Linsey.
George Shaw and Margaret Tutty.
John Langton & Abigail 1 Woorsley.
nst 1622.
William ClefFord and Many Stapleton.
Procter T.ervasse and Anne Taylor.
()1 liver ffletcher & Agnes Spicer.
William Gardner Sc Sarah Cockin.
Samuel] Cooke & Joyce Pinnox.
Lawrence Staples & Ruth Roberts.
John Mercer and Elizabeth Moone.
I iabriell Throgman it Elizab : Balandier,
Thomas Allen & Mary Latner.
John Gnye and Joane Carter.
Robert Ferres and Jone Stanton.
September 1622.
William Croft and Judith Collman.
Roger Connington & Grace Rayner.
John Tvrner and Elizab : Lilleton.
Nicholas Marvin and Susan Ilarte.
Abraham Ellinge and Mary Waterton,
William Rarret and Agnes Goldringe.
October 1022.
Thomas Knight & Honor Guvle. '
Henry Roe and Sarah Walton.
Hugh Gellv and Mary Kyte.
Sampson Colethorpe & Bridget Ball.
James Pannier & Margaret Price.
fnancis Browne & Frances Watson.
John Grymes-& Margaret Willett.
Phillip Bayley & Elizab : \ lisson.
m and Emery Nicholls.
William Brittaine and Christian Nash.
1S91.] Note's and Queries. 207
27, Nicholas Knight and Katlicrin Paine.
28, Clement Kellat and Elizab : Br6wne.
November 1622.
3, Thomas Lacy and Frances Morris.
11, Henry Webber and Joane Osboume.
12, Daniell Smith and Dorithy Edmitt.
14, John Kempe and Katheren Wignall.
17, William Brackson and Awdrev Score.
18, George Apleby ami Alice \\
2i, Humfrey Howland and Margaret Calvert.
^ To be continued.)
NOTES AND QUERIES.
We have ilie pleasure of presenting to our readers, as the leading article, a ]»nrc
of the first chapter of the forthcoming Memorial J 1 1 New York, of which
ral Wilson is the editor, and of which mention was made in the Julv RECORD.
This chapter was written l>y the Rev. l>r. B. Y . Da ( losta. Ii is not given com-
pletely or continuously in tlie RECORD, but it lias been abbreviated by omi
various places, made in such a way as to give a clear and interesting narrative, and a
general idea of the character of the book. We are indebted to the thoughtfulni
General Wilson and .the courtesy of the New York History Company for 1 he use
of their proof-sheets and illustrations. The first volume of the work will be ready
by the end of the present month of October.
Tin: readers of the Record will remember perusing with pleasure and pi
admirable address by our esteemed president, General Wilson, upon liisnui' Pro-
r. in the RECORD for January, 1S87. 1 he Rev. Isaac SMITH SON HARTLEY,
1 >.!>., appears, likewise, to have read that paper, doubtless with oleasure, but
all question with piolit. We beg leave to refer our readers to an artic''
this reverend gentleman upon the same subject, BISHOP Provoost, in the August
M. \ 1.1 01 American History, which we commend fo them as a literary curi-
osity. It is pretty clear that the reverend gentleman has walked into a- trap, of the
existence of which both author and editor were unaware, until it caught ibis clerical
poacher. The fact is, that General Wilson's paper is strictly original, in whi< h char-
acter it by no means resembles ihe production of this reverend doctor. General Wil-
ook the greatest pains with his paper. It was founded upon original rei
and original oral information from the bishop's descendants and many oilier sou
and it contains a great deal that was unknown and unpublished until General \\
brought it to light, and that, of course, cannot 1 found anvv
else than in his admirable monograph. This is the trap, unconsciously laid, into
which the reverend gentleman has walked. This unique information, or fo mn
it as took his fancy, reappears in his paper, usually under some transformation, but
iming plainly enough whence it came. We have nothing 1
gentleman; but we will add a word of advice to literary freebooters, vi/., if
steal, to steal intelligently, lest they be fourfd out ; but as this advice may 1
minds to be hardly moral, perhaps it might be better not to steal at all.
unnecessary, for honest authors are not likely to object to an honest 1 ••. lii-
providing an honest acknowledgment be made.
WHO were THE WIVES OP Caleb Abell ; Rev. Stephen Batchelder, of
rhomas Bliss, Sr.; John Boradell, of Cork, Ireland, 1625 ; Daniel Browi
[pswich, 1620; Humphrey Brown, ol Ipswich, 1730; Edward Dillini
wich ; Tristram Dodge, Sr., o( Block Island ; Thomas Ford, of Dorchester, :
Thomas Hopkins, of Providenc >amuel H Anson, of Delaware, 1740;
liam Hyde, of Hartford, 1650; Matthew Mitchell, 1635 ; Thomas Meni:i, of
/
2o8 Notes and Queries. [Oct.,
N. Y.. 1670; Samuel Porter, of Iladiey, 16S0 ; Isaac Sheldon, Sr., of Dorchester,
1629; Richard Smith, of Narragansett, 1664; Richard Strong, of Taunton, England,'
1600; Joseph Thomes, of Abingdon, Pa.; Anthony Thompson, Sr., of New Haven'
1632 ; Micah Tompkins, of Milford, Conn., 1660; William Wood, of Dartmouth,'
; Samuel Wright, father of Hannah, 1640?
DOUGLAS MERRITT,
Leacote, Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Who were the parents of Esther Allen, wife of Samuel Thompson, of New
Haven, 1730; Helen Anthony, wife of John Thompson, of New Haven, 1665;
Alice Archer, wife of Stephen Dummer, ol Newbury, 1630; Hannah Avery, 'wife of
William Sutherland, of Dutchess Co.. 1720 ; Mary Clark, wife ol Richard Thomas, of
Abingdon, Pa., 1745 ; Isaac Cox, of Talbot Co., Md., 1734 ; Lvdia Croxton, wife
of Kenelm Skillington, of Talbot Co., Md., 1692 ; Mary Dingy, wife of Nehemiah
Meriitt, of Quaker Hill, N. V., 1760; Henry Glover, of New Haven, 1660; Judith
Griffin, wife of David Sutherland, of Bangall, N. V., 1760 ; Mary Hauxhurst,' wife of
Robert Coles, of Roxbury, 1630; Susanne Holmes,- wile of Valentine Wightman, of
Groton, 17113; Ichabod Hopkins, of Oyster Pay. P. I., 1669-1730 ; Mary Hughes,
wife of John .-scon, of Spsncertown, X. V., 1744'; Ann Hunt, wife of Henry Sewall,'
of Newbury, 1634; Jane Lee, wife of Samuel Hyde, of Norwich, 1659 ; Thomas
Meriitt, of Rye, \. V., 1670 ; Elizabeth Newlin, wife of Robert Shepherd, 1730;
Sarah Proctor, wife ol William Douglas, of Plainfield, Conn., 1710 ; John Scott, of
Icertown, N. Y.. 1744; William Sutherland, of Dutchess Co., 1720; Helena
Wakeman, wife of Henry Glover, of New Haven, 1663 ; Rebecca Wheeler, wife of
Asa Douglas, of Plainfield, Conn., 1737; William Wood, of Dartmouth, 1720?
DOUGLAS MERR1TT,
Leacote, Rhinebeck, N. V.
On Sedgwick Avenue and Fordham Landing Road, southeast corner, in this
city, is to be found an old graveyard, or portion thereof. The avenue has been cut
through the same, and many of the graves are by and in said roadway, unfenced and
lor. Some tombstones are fallen and made stepping-stones.
Other removed from the graves. Among the names on the remaining
ter (Win. H.), Valentine (Mary), Hart (Jacob), Berrian, Lawrence,
Elizabeth). The earliest date found is only iSxo. What can
be done to save this graveyard from added ruin? Who knows its owner? Does the
city have any claim on it ? Will your readers answer ? \v. E. K.
Information ired as to the parentage of John Prick, of the Royal Navy,
who married, in this city, Rachel Brownjohn, about 1782. Also the parentage of
Racln r, Dr. Wil iwnjohn, or Brunjean, a well-known
ian during the colonial and revolutionary days. rj. b. f.
Tjie following letters from Fitz-GreENE HALI.ECK to Ids father are contributed
ral Wilson. They are now printed for the first time. " The flood of years "
mfortunately rendered portions of the first of the two letters illegible.
New York, Feb, ijtfi, 1812.
Dear Sir: — Since my last a ship has arrived from Liverpool bringing English
papers to the 20'ieth of I ; they contain nothing however of material importance
h of Admiral Sir Peter Parker, and the appointment of the Puke of
\ Henry to succeed him in his station of commander in 1 iiief
of the Sir Peter died at the age of 95—80 years 01' whii spent
his Country — the amount of the settlement, .....
betw< jlish Minister and our 1 lovernment had been received in England and
occasi- i. n the commercial part of that Country.
I in this city the last \ |u nee of a
ted in 1 ,on
Mr. Monroe and signature by Mr. Jefferson on accounl obnoxious
articles .... renewed with the satisfactory erasures and additi
f course excited consider..' rest in all parties, but at last proved to b
oner recently arrived here in a short passage from France bryigs intelli-
gence of th< i.d American Vessels, which had been ; the
Rambcullet decree.
1 89 1. J Obituary.
209
Whether this measure proceeds from the actual repeal of that decree and its
attendants, or whether it is but policy in Bonaparte to decoy American property into
his harbor for the purpose of laying his iron gripe upon it, and crushing the expecta-
tions of its owners at " one fell swoop'* is uncertain.
In my opinion Bonaparte is amply able and J make no doubt willing to put the
latter in execution ....... and 'tis the part of pru-
dence to be cautious ............
some atonement in that way — for the injury he has done us but still I am not dis-
posed to submit tamely to all his arbitrary measures, and in the words of Shakespeare.
" Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee" to him.
My letter ot last week I trust is received.
Yours affectionately,
F. G. Halleck.
New York, Junj 20, 1S15.
.My dear Sir : — Business is very lively here at present, daily increasing. The
streets are thronged with foreigners of every description and every vessel from Eng-
land brings in a fresh importation of boys who come here for the laudable purpose of
supplying us with scissors, sledge-hammers, gauges, and green-baize. They are
generally speaking a set of ignorant conceited blockheads — who have never before
passed, beyond gun-shot of their smoky manufactories — and now palm themselves
upon the good people of this country as English gentlemen of distinction. Since the
departure of the Marquis we have not been honored by a visit from any of the British
Officers. The Marquis and the Colonel O'Neele I mentioned to you, were the only
decent looking men among them. The former was really a handsome fellow and
might have vied with Hercules, in symmetry of form, just proportions, and manly
appearance. He and a Mr. Powell of Philadelphia had a famous boxing match (a la
Crib) in which to the honor of American pugilism His Lordship was beaten.
Undoubtedly in a few years we shall be able to rival the mother country in this as
well as other fashionable accomplishments.
We are anxiously expecting news daily from Europe, though not perhaps immedi-
ately interesting to the country, yet as it may decide whether war or peace is to pre-
vail there, cannot but be more or less important in the estimation of every friend to
humanity.
The last date received here up to May 2d at which time altho' preparations for war
appeared to be going on rapidly, yet no blow had been struck by either partv. f
am satisfied that Bonaparte will not at present, be the aggressor. He will only act
on the defensive, and if the allies are determined to force a King upon the French.
people and carry sin and sword through the finest country in the world, I can only
say that I sincerely hope that their hordes of Cossacks, Wcllingtonians &c, will soon
find, what every soldier fights for, and every hero claims — an honorable grave.
Your affect ionate
F. G. Halleck.
Israel Halleck, Esq.
ADDRESSES before our Society are expected early in the season from Berthold
Fernow, Esq. of Albany ; the Hon. James W. Gerard, of New York City, and Will-
iam Paterson, Esq., of Perth Amboy, N. J . Other well-known gentlemen will fol-
low the above speakers during the winter. yy.
OBITUARY.
Rebei 1 .v Yates, widow of William B. Wemple, died at her residence, Fulton-
ville, Montgomery County, X. Y., on the 271I1 of last February. iUv ancestors
for many generations were identified with the early history and settlement of the
lwk Valley, her family name, Yates, being one of the most ancient historical
names in the city of Schenectady, where she was born January 14, 1S11. Her
father, Joseph Vales,- was a greatly-respected and well-known citizen of that old
cathedral town. He was commissioned by ihe General Synod of the Reformed
2io Obituary. [Oct., 1S91.
Church to translate from their native Dutch into English some of the creeds
and documents of that reverend and religious body. Mr. Y ed to Caughna-
waha, M (Otgomery County, when his 'laughter Rebecca was but three years ot age.
Then again in 1S21 to Fultonville, where the family made their permanent home.
In [833 Miss Yates was united in marriage to William B. W fe-long resident
of Fultonville, prominently identified as its most enterprising an citizen in
every department pertaining to the welfare of the place and its inhabitants. Their
union was most happy until broken by the death of Mr. Wemple in [869.
Wemple was a woman of marked personality and striking characteristics, command-
ing and dignified in appearance. In conversation s*he was original, instructive, and
entertaining. She possessed a strong and vigorous mind, well balanced, of most
excellent common-sense, reliable in judgment, and so upright, so established her
character for veracity, that her word was law. She fulfilled to a remarkable extent
her duty in every position and relation in life. While her family were around her
she gave to them her undivided cue and attention. A true and faithful wife, the
heart of her husband safely trusted in her. A devoted mother ti dren,
who have well repaid her • nd care. As they began to leave the parental
hearth for homes of their own, the husband of her youth was removed as by a sudden
stroke. From this time onward she lived the life of a Christian wid
her own home and among the varied branches of her family, hei
church. In 1S51 she united with the Reformed Dutch Church of :
until the oay of her death was identified with every department of Christian '
within its b< tin SI ■ was a life member of the American Bible Society, and of the
li ionary Society of (hat church, of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, and vice-president oft!: he Children's Hi n !ont-
iunty ; and above all a devoted Christian, faithful and loyal lo her church
cs. In the various changes of the pulpit of this church, v-
.ith her. She
ever L's chamber, and man of that denomination Will
urch, in the sixteei
her work . with
incapa past the age when many feel tin I service are over,
and th led to rest, ihe entered, upon a new held of work, associating her-
[e band of Christian v tit of
the pi 'i of the entire > Irs. Wemple was the
president of tin I lithful workers. She
1. ■ were large, and many
the garments (jashioned
i did she manifest her dec; ; 1' 0
Mrs. Wei tccorded the higi: celling among her ow
1 Fultonville many years bi vhen
that now thriving tor [fields. She resided there for (he long
lace, and witnessed its
both with , loved thi
On the 14th of List j.
ich will be forever remembered by chili
Tender an;' ti he memories which will cluster*!
Idren but to the entire community. Thi
lity. few v :eks later >he was stricken with
few days ; her work - ;
" Like a
She was buried from the home in which shell- 1
t largely atteni . while
their parents', friend.
;>er life, 1
.
Oi td in his eai . The sin
. ranklin P. ' the firm
he Hon. ' lew York.
lie wife o; arlingen, S -
INDEX OF NAMES IN VOLUME XXII
Aalsteyn 82, 83
Aalstyn, 86, 143, 147,
148, 189
Aalteyn, 144
Abbatt, 151
Abbott, 55, 1^3, 137
Abeel, 7, 81, 88, 141
Abell. 53, 209
Abercrombie, 37
Abereshin, 148
Abraham, 56
Abrahamse, 145
Abramse, 12
Abrichs, 157
Acheson, 204
Adams, 24, 42, 45, 47, 52,
58, 60, 63, 69, 72, 113,
Adisson, 206
Adlington. 52
Akkermans, 143
Alden, 78
Alexander, 89, 161
Algeer, 88
Alger, 145
Allam, 20 j
Allaway, 53
Mletonsce, 170
1 \llen, 54. 71, 76, 107,
154, 161, 205 206, 208
Allforde, 206
Alloway, 75
Alsdorph, 144
Alsop, 160
Alsteyn, 12
Altgeldt, 85,86
Altgelt, 87, 144, 148
Althuisen, 86
Alver, 186
Ament, 186, 188
Amherst, 37
Amis, 75
Amisse, 205
Amory, 162
Ancell, 75
Anderson, 76
Andrada, 169
Andrt, 41
Andrewes, 205
Andrews, 73, 74, 135,
136
Andries, 12
Andriese, 13
Andriesse, 7, 82, 87
Andriessen, 143, 183
Andrieszc. 142, 184
Andros, 35, 44
Ansley, 53
Answorth, 54
Anthony, 208
Antonides, 83
Antony, 10, 12, 87, 38,
141, 144
Apleby, 207
Aplebye, 52
Appel, 9, 11, 88, 146
Appellate, 68
Appleton. 56, 63, 162
Apsley, 44, 208
Arbery, 56
Arbuthnot, 40
Archer, 205
Arentse, 106 •
Ariaanse, 12, 141
Armstrong, 118, 119,
20 s
Arnold. 47, 54, 62, 63,
66. 70, 74, 75, 113
Arrowsniith, 53
Arthur, 63
Asbrandson, 165, 166
Ashhurst, 158
Asmotherlaw, 205
Aspinwall, 46, 47
Astor, 46, 56, 57, 63,
105, no, 115, 127, 155
Astrooder, 55
Atkins, 205
Attn nod. 53
Auchmuty, 38
Austin, 54, 63, 79, 196,
208
Ayres, 132, 136
Avery, 35, 45
A.xley, 55
Aylion, 168
Babbit, 78
Bacchus, 144
Bachtell, 133, 138
Bachus, 148
Baetjer, 63
Bagiey, 48
Bailey, 63, 69
Baily, 59
Bainbndge, 98
Baird, 108
Baker, 52, 53, 54, no,
209
Bakker, 188
Bakkes, n, 88
Balandier, 206
Ball, 206
Baltimore, 3
Bancker, 7, 10. 12, 13,
14, 145. >47
Bancroft, 107. 165, 202
Band, 87, 188
Bandt. 12, 146
Banister, 55
Banker, 187
Banks, 45
Bant, 12, 68, 70
Banta, 63, 158
Barber, 91, 94, 95
Baree, 187
Barheidt, 86
Barheit, <>. 14, 189
Barker, 69, 75, 79, no,
161, 205
Barkeyd, 144
Barlo, 55
Barlow, 57
Barnes, 77
B irnett, 205
Barret, 206
Barrisford, 106
Barritt, 106
Bartel, 145
Bartlet. 54
Bartlett, 59, 177
Barton, 54, 69, 71, 75
Bartow, 62
Bashfelde, 76
Bass, 141
Basset, 88, 188
Batchelder, 209
Bates, 102, 159
Bauden, 55
Bavier, 153
Baxter, 59
Bayard, 9, 13, 83, 85,
108, 141, 148, 150,
184, 185, 189
Bayeux, 8, 146
Bayley, 54, 138, 206
Baylies, 78
Baynes, 204
Baytes, 53
Bayu, 184
Bazill, 56
Beach, 56, 70, 74, 139,
1 40
Beadle, 204
Beamond, 77
Beard, 55, 205
Beck, 133
Becke, 204
Beckley, 192
Beckwith, 196
Becman, 157
Bedlo, 141
Bedlowe, 205
Beecman, 157
Beeckman, 41
Beedoon, 54
Beekman, 9, n. 12, 13,
63, 8t, 88, 14:, 143,
146, 183, 186, 188
Beely, 8
Beers, 55, 106
Behaim, 163
Bekker, 14, 82
Bell, 54, 63, 72, 76, 78,
_ , 79
Bellinger, 172
Bellingham, 44
Belmont, 56, no
Bel tram, 169
Bembrik. 205
Bender, 82
Benjamin, 39
Benkrike, 53
Bennet, 14, 185
Bennett, 53, 157
Bennewe, 86
Bcnnit, 53
Bennowe, 87
Bensen, 8, 9, 12, 86, 87,
186, 189
Bensing, 14, 82, 83, 145,
147, 148, 184, 185,
187, IQO
Benson, 199, 205
Benthuysen, 12
Bentley, 53, 72
Benton. 31
Beomont, 53
Berd. 75
Bergen, 92, 158
Bergh, 63
Berk, 143
Berkeley, 15, 104, 138
Berkelo, 85
Berkels, 147, 187
Bernard, 206
Berrian, 51, 52, 55, 209
Berrie, 84
Bethencourt, 163
Bett, 206
Betts, 63, no, 205
Biarne, 165
Bicker, 7, 11, 146
Biddle, 158
Bidduw, 12
Bi^elow, 62
Bikker, 189, 190
Bikkers, 8
Bikly. 189
Bill. 146
Billop, 82
Bingham, 53 .
Bingley, 53 /
Bird, 205, 206
Bishop, 158
Bispam, 161
Bisset, 142
Bisshop, 205
Bissit, 83
Bixby, 63
Black, ibo
Blackman, 133, 138
Blague, 55
Blakslee, 1 -
Blank, 7, 8, 81, 82, 87
1+.?. 14;
Blankasopp, 76
Blatchford, 48
Blauwveld, 144
Blauwveldt, 187
Blauwvelt, 84, 190
Bl lydes, 59, 62
Bleaker, 158
Bleecker, 63, 15S, 161
Bliforde, 205
Bliss, 63, 79, 162, 209
Blom, 10, 12, 81, 83, 86,
87, 83, 143, 146, 147,
186, 187. 189, 190
Bljdenburg. 8, 144
Blyker, 81
Bocke, 145, 187
Bodnam, 53
Boeje, 146, 187
Bockenhoven, 148, 184
Boekhoven, 84
Boel. S6, 148, 186
Boele, 85, 142
Boelen, 7, 13, 83, 142,
145' 148. 185. 190
Bogaard, 148, 186
Bogaart, 143, 186 187
i
.
12
Index of Names in Volume XXII.
Bogaerd, 143, 144
Bogaert, 147, 184
Bogard, 186
Bogardt, 186
Bogardus, 88
Bogart, 147, 177, 190
rt, 9, 11, 12, 81, i
Bogg, 75
Boggs, 48
Boka, 185
Boke, 12. 81
Bokee, 189
Boljew, 12
Bolles, 63
Bomper. 13
Bonaparte, 207, 208
Bond, 86, 141
Bondt. 189
Bondy, 17
Bonefant, 75
Bonnel, 139
Bonner, 112
Bonnet, 189
Bonsall, 106 .
Booth, 113
Boradell, 209
Borden, 112
Bore, 82
Boreel. 157
Borel, 146
Borkels, 11
Borrow, 17
Bory, 142
Bos, 3, 10, 88
Bosch, s, 7, 12, 87, 141,
142, 145, 146, 188
Boss, 144
Bostock, 54
Boteler, 44
Boukenhoven, 85
Bcun, 189
Bowden, 54
Bowen, 56, 63, 15s
Bowers. 192
Bowles, 179
Bowne, 174
Bowyer, 206
Bowzy. 56
Boxford. 76
Boyce. 71
Boyde, 53
Boydon, 52
Boynton, 43
Brackson, 207
Brad, 84
Bradford, 73, 135, 158,
172
Bradley, 76
Bradner, 50
Bradshaw, 16
Bradstrcet, 37
Bradt, 144, 145
Brady, 107
Braesjer, 84
Bragdon, 160
Braidsjer, 11
Brainerd, 63
Braisier, 145
Braisjer, 9, 10
Braman, 63
Brand, 54
Brankin, 204
Bras, 13, 86, 87, 142, 189,
190
Brasher, 187
Brasier, 146
Brasjer, 184
Brastow, 140
Braswell, 56
Brat, 147
Bratt, 81
Breen, 60, 73
Bri
Bri
Breestede, 7, 12
Brenton, 205
Brereton. 149, 150
Brestede, 14, 142, 147
Brevoort, iqo
Brewer. 53, 204
""ewster, 34, 35, 63
iant, 13
ggs, 57, 73, 79, 136
nkerhof, 83, ~°
Brinkerhoff, 86
Bristed, 118
Brock. 53
Brockhols, 185
Brocklesby, 53
Brockway, 63
Brodhead. 153, 172
Broeck, 148
Brokhols, 81
Bromley, 75
Brooke, 43
Brooks, 63, 78, 79
Broome, 52
Broun, 13
Broune, 54, 55
Brouwer, 7, 8, 9, 14, 141,
144, 146, 148, 186, 190
Brouwne, 87
Browne, 20, 43, 48, 56,
63, 73, 106, 133. 158,
196, 209
Browne, 206, 207
Brownjohn, 209
Brumley, 41
Brunjean, 209
Bruyn, 3, 4, 87, 144, 154,
188
Bruyns, 157
Bryan, 85
Bryant, 76
Bryen, 186
Bryn, 7
Buchanan, 29, 31
Buckner, 55
Buddies, 54
Buel, 45
Bugby, 158
Buis. 188
Bulkley, 193
Bull, 77
Bullock, 134
Bulsing, 81, 144, 146
Burbeck, 205
Burger, 8, 9, 81, 84, 86,
87, 141, 142, 143, 144,
145, 184, 188, 190
Burgess, 180
Burgoyne, 119
Eurhans, 63
Burnbury, 53
Burnett, 63
Burr, 9
Burris. 87
Burrowes, 54, 77
Burton, 75
Busby, 201
Bush, 154
Busha, 17
Bushey. 17
Bushnell, 96
Bussing, 87, 142, 147,
189
Butcher, 53
Butler, si, 56, 63, 76,
114. 196, 198, 199
Butterfiefd. 63
Buys. 12, 146, 183
Byckman, 145
Bye, 158
Byram. 140
Byrchett, 76
Byvank, 14, 83, 86, 88,
142, 145, 184
Caar, 10, 186
Cabell, 55
Cabot. 164, 166, 167, 168,
170
Cadmer, 205
Cage, 56
Caldwell, 66
Calhoun, 31
Caljer, 10
Caljow, 12
Callen, 143
Calvert, 207
Cambell, 54, 142
Cambridge, 76
Campbell, 13, 20
Canaday, 71
Canfield, 28, 29, 30
Cannon, n, 145, 184,
186
Canon, 14', 83, 86. 142,
146
Cantine. 3, 4
Capella, 168
Capers, 181
Capron, 73
Care, 186
Carhart, 63
Carle. 50
Carlile, 76, 171
Carman, 158
Carnahan, 62
Carnes, 139, 140
Carolius, 87, 144
Carol us, 86
Carpinter, 53, 63, 112
Carstang, 190
Carsten, 142
Carter, 53, 55, io6T 138,
190. 206
Carteret, 35, 104
Cartier, 173
Cary, 139
Cashman, 95
Caspar, 14
Cass, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
Cathcart. 41
Catlingson, 76
Cavalje, 81
Cavelier, 12, 144
Cebrink, 86
Cenci, 43
Chamberlaine, 52
Chambers, 54, 55. 62
Champernowne, 60
Chandler, 54, 91, 191
Chapman, 69, 75, 77,
181
Chappell, 205, 206
Chardevine, 186
Chardovine, 10
Chase, 136, 161
Chauner, 53
Cheatley, 76
Chedister, 140
Cheevers, 55
Chesley, 182
Chevalje, 10
Child, 12
Childs. 56
Chosell, 54
Chower, 204
Christien, 12
Church, 192
Churchill, 56, 73, 101,
Claarwater. 152
Claiborne, 63
Clapp, 57
Clarence, 207
Clark, 63, 130, 133, 137,
208
Clarke, 53, 54, 63, 71,
75, 98, 181, 205
Clarkson, 38, 63, 82,
143. 148, 150, 185
Clarkzon, 83
Clary, 191
Clay. 23, 28
Clayton. 53
Clearwater, 63
Cleaver, 55
Clemans, 74
Clemens, 54
Clerk, 145
Clerke, 76
Cleveland, 63, 191, 192
Clifford, 206
\Clinton, 38, 40, 92
Clopper, 184. 188
Clouwryn, 183
Clowes, 130, 131, 132
Co, 185
Coaldwell, 191
CoBb, 80
Cobbet, 76
Cock, 53
Cockin, 206
Coddington, 112
Coebraeth, 53
Coeney, 205
Coeverts, 86
Coffin, 162
Cokkever, 190
Colden, 162
Coldwell, 192
Cole, 52, 77, 79, 205
Coles, 208
Colet, 43
Colethorpe, 206
Coljer, 185
Collens, 54
Colman, 206
Columbus, 163, 164,
168
Colver, 197
Combe, 67
Combes, 63
Commons, 86
Comstock, 195
Conally, 159
Condon, 182
Condrae, 77
Confort, 86
Conklin, 39, 80
Conkling, 63
Connel, 5
Conningham, 9
Connington, 206
Constable, 52
Constant, 63
Conyngham, 198
Coo, 82
Cook, 53, 70, 74. 136,
199
Cooke, 53, 56, 205, 206
Cool. 81
Coolidge. 69, 71
Cooly, 183
Cooper, 37 .
Copley, 45
Coppin, 75
Copway, 162
Corcelius. 144, 148, 183,
188, 190
Corcoran, 56
Corelie, 144
Cornbury, 128
Cornelisse, 83, 87
Cornelissen, 1
Cornell, 38, 58, 62, 63,
ii2, 174, 175
Cornewall. 76
Cornish, 56
Corselius, 10, 85
Corsen, 8, 12, 143
Corsse, 143
Index of Names in Volume XXII.
2 I
Corssen, i
Corvvin, 159
Cortelius, 86
Cory, 75
Cosyn, 148
Cosyne, 84
Cosyns, 10
Cotheal. 63
Cottcrill, 56
Cotterman, 206
Cottesford, 75
Coult, 54 j/'
Couwenhoven, 189
Coventry, 66
Cox, 77, 208
Coykendall, 6}
Cozens, 76
Cozyn, 83
Crane. 90, 96, 97, 98
Crawford, 198
Crawley, 54
Creede, 75
Cregier, n, 13, 147,
190
Cresswell, 204
Crigier, 12
Crippen, 108
Crispell, 63
Creek, 84
Croft, 206
Crollius, 11, 13, 190
Crome. 77, 204
Crommelyn, 9, 141
Crooke. 13
Croscup, 182
Croseman, 77
Crossman, 77-80
Crowell, 209
Croxton, 208
Cruger, 63, 84, 186
Cuiler, 184
Culler, 183
Culver. 197
Cumming, ,76, 77
Cunningham, 16
Currant, 205
■ — Curtis, 159
Curtuous, 75
Cutfor, S3
Cutt. 55
Cutting, 58, 103
Cuyler, 8, 63
Da Costa, 209
Dacres, 99
Daily, 9. n
Dallahood, 76
Dallas, 23, 31
Dally, 143, 146, 187
Damarill. 200
Dammering, 54
Damuth, 134
Dana, 60, 61
Dane, 191
Darling, 62, 105, 114,
' „ 1SS1 2°S
Dasy, 88
Davenport, 18
Davidson, 109
Davies, 63
.^-— Davis, S4, 63, 75, 77,
80
Davyson, 75
Dawson, 53, 55
Day. 105, 185, 205, 206
Dayle. 141
Dayton, 41, 89, 90, 98
Deacon, 15, 16
Deall, 103
Dean, 79
De Ayala, 163
De Bury, 123
Decker, 4
De Clerk, 14
De Courval, 49
De Dino, 49
Deel, 144
Deenemarken, 13
Defenne, 190
De Foreest, ic, 185
De Forest, 179, 200, 201,
203
De Four, 84
De Graaf, 154, 183, 184,
190
De Grauw, 9, 83, 88,
144, 186. 190
De Groff, 20
De Groof, 9, 142
De Hardt, 142
De Hart, 8
De Honeur, 14
De Honneur, 145
De Kay, 86, 187
Delafield, 38, 63, 112
De la Maar, 88
Delamater, 4
De la Metre, 9
De la Montagne, 85,
187, 189
De Lancey, 37, 48, 63
De Lancy, 143
De Lanoy, 7, 9, 12, 183
Dello, 54
De Meyer, 12
De Mildt, 14, 144, 148
De Milt, 13, 146
De Navarro, 56
Denemarken, 188
Denny, 106
Denton, 129, 138
De Peyster, 12, 14, 81,
82, 83, 143, 145, 147,
148, 150, 187
Depons, 162
De Pottere, 157
Deptford, 76
De Puisage, 200
Depuy, 4. 152
De P„iemer, 8, 67, 143,
MS
Dering, 39, 41
Derje, 1S7'
Deuel, 106
Deursen, 9
De Vaux, 157
De Vere, 44
De Vie, 85
De Ville, 106
De Voe. 8. 71, 83, 186
De Voor, 84
De Voie, 8
Devotion, 198
De Vries, 157
Dewbery, 52
Dewey, 56
De Wit, 186
De Witt, 3-6, 46, 63,
„ J54. i57
Dey, 88
Deyer, 85
Deyo, 4, 152
Dexter, 6
D'Harriette, 18s
D'Honneur, 38, 39
Diamond, 204
Dibdin, 122
Dickerson, 21-33, io4
Dickie, 90, 95
Dickson, 177
Digges, 53
Dijo. 152
Dillingham, 209
Dingy, 208
Diodati, 43
Dix, 57, 76, 105, 115, 155
Dobs, 147
Dobson. 76
Docharty, 102
Dod, 23
Dodge, 118, 175, 209
Dollyn, 54
Dongan. 44
Donskom. 13
Doom, 86
Doriette, 183
Dorland,- 15
Dorr, 195
Dorrie, 148
Doty, 63
Doughty, 113
Douglas, 197, 208
Douglass. 158, 159
Douroe, 83
Douvepack, i83
Douw, 185
Douwe, 148
Dow, 155
Downes, 54
Downey, 16
Dows, 61
Dowse, 61
Drackett, 20
Drake, 169, 173
Draljer, 186
Draper, 53, 157
Dremer, 172
Drewe, 52
Drexel, 56
Drinkwater, 13, 81, 187
Drowne, 63. 113
Druliet, 8
Drury, 25
Du Bois, 3. 4, 63, 114,
151, 152, 153. 154
Du Boisson, 108
Duchesneau, 104
Dudley, 53
Duer, 62, 160, 161
Du Four, 87
Dugglas, 77
Duiking, 83, 88
Dummer, 20S
Du Mon, 187
I >umond, 6
Duncan, 162
Dunton, 53
! Du Vail, 105. 106
I Duyckinck, 7
Duyckink, 141
I Duyke, 81
Dwiet, 12
Dwight, 58, 177
Dyer, 13, 85, 185. 187
Dykman, 14, 1:5
Dyks, 142, 146
Fames. 59
Eaton, 63. 74, 105, 155,
174, 180
Ebbets, 188
Eckersen. 185
Eckesen, 10
Eddy, 103
Edmitt, 207
Edmunds, 52
Edrope, 55
Edsall. 63, 86
Edwards, 6, 107, 203
Eeg, 85
Een, 152
Eerensteyn, 144
Egbertson, 6
Eght. 87
Egt. Si
Eikk-y, 190
Ekkerson, 185, 186, 187
Flam, 55
I Elderkin, 192
Eldred, 76
Eldring. 88
Elery, 162
Eliot, 59, 62, 63, 114,
162
Ellakcn, 188
Ellem, 144
Elles, 148
Ellicott, 158
Ellin, 14
Ellinge, 206
Elliott, 25, 76, 107, no,
151. 184
Ellis, 11, 81, 82, 83, 106,
185, 188
j Ellison, 37
I Elner, 145
Elsword, 84, 85, 188
Elswort, 83
! Elsworth, 87, 88. 141,
148, 186, 187, 188
1 Elwyn, 158
I Ely, 46
Elzeworth, 9, 12, 13
Emans. 145
I Emerson, 58, 104
] English, no
Erensteyn, 14, 87, 148
I Erkes, 12
i Erskine, 40
Espersen, 72, 135
Evans, 3, 63, 204
I Everds, 142
] Ewing, 24
i Ewondse, 18^.
I Eygenberg, 86
Faillon, 105
Fairfax, 63, 105, 14^.
i 150
Fairfield, 19
Fargo, 63
Farmar, 82
1 Farmer, 147
Farragut, 72, 159
Farringhtun, 106
j Farrington, 56
Faulkener, 204
Faulkner, 205
Favier, 146, 187
Fayrecloth, 75
Feewaters, 205
Feild, 53, 54
Fellows, 179
Fells, 55
I Felton. 205
Fenix. 86
Fenwick, 43, 44, 55
Femvicke, 54
Ferland, 105
Fernow, 106, 155, 156,
209
Fcrres, 206
Ferris, 63
Fetchet, 141
Feyn, 82
Field, 56. 63, 74, 136,
ptk59'198
r uibeen, 12
Filkens. 8, 85, 188
Fillmore, 107
Filpot, 84
Finch, 80
Fish, 13
Fisher, 54, 75, 186
Fisjer, 7
Fisk, 10S, 109
Fisser, 85
Fitch, 23
Fitz Ram. h 180
Flagler, 154
Flamen, 85, 145
Fleming, .82
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Fletcher. 40. £3, 206
Flower. 56, 63
Floyd. 34. 37, 38. 30. 47
Five, 206
Foepert, 188
Folleman. 7
Fonda, 70
Foos. 186
Ford. 56, 76, 209
Fordham. 37
Forman. 82, 199
Foster, 63, 74, 114, 179
Fouler. 141
Fowler, 63. 76. 204
Fox, 52. 54
Franklin. 62, 81. 191
Fraser. 65
Freeman, 72, 134
, Freer. 151. 152, 153
Frelinghuysen, 24, 62
Freman. 82
French, 8, 82, 86
Trisbee. 58
Frizell. 55
Frobisher, 173
Frontenac, 57, 104, 105
Frost, 80, 102
Frye, 160
Fuller. 70. 74, 136
Fulton, 23
Fyn, 11, 185, 189
Fyre, 206
Gabry, 1
Gachere 10
Gacherse, 146
Gadr-n. 14
Gaine, 95
Gale, 55, 69, 75, 206
Gales. 53
Gallops, 78
Galloway, 82, 147
Galoway. 7
Galvano. 169
Gamage, 56
Gandsfoort, 157
Garcia de la Plaza, 20
Gardiner, 34, 35, 39, 40,
41, 43, 44. 45, 46, 47,
50, 51, 57, 105, no
Gardner. 53, 206
Garland, 184
darling, 13
Garneau, 105
Gasherie, 4, 87
Gaston. 63
Gates, 196
Gaunt, 76
Crautier, 147
Gautje, 81
Gaye, 2' -6
Gaylord, 62, 70, 71
Geert, 88
Gelly, 77, 206
Gelston, 38
Gerard. 113. 209
Gerbrands. 85, 145
Gererard, 83
Gerhardi, 156
Germain, 39
Gcrmond. 159
(lerrils. if:5. 188
derritsc, 146
Gerritsze, 82, 83
Gerritze, 190
Gerry, 63
Gervasse, 205, 206
Geveraat, 184
Gholson, -
Gibbf
( '. i . , , 11 1
.iibbs. 57
Gibcrt, 148
Giddy. 54
Gifford, 54, 72, 135
Gilbert, n. 13, 53, 85,
106, 148, 171
Gilchrist, 70, 73
Gildart, 150
Gilden. 77
Gildersley, 54
Gilderslieve, 129, 131,
132
Gillespie, 158
Gilpin, 180
Girlill, 54
Glisson, 75
Glover, 71, 133, 208.
209
Goade, 55
Godfrey, 113
Godwin. 54
Goederis. 9, 142
Goelet, 1?, 85,87,142,
146, 184, 185, 190
Goetes, 82
Goldringe, 206
Gomara, 176
Gomes, 168, 169, 170,
„ x7i
Goouale. 63
Goodfellow. 206
Goodlad, 188
Goodled, 13
Goodwin, 63, in, 112,
^ I5S
Goodwyn, 53
Goose. 21
Gordon, 1S7
Gorges. 172
Gorny, 11, 144
Gosherey, 186
Gould. 56, 78, 80
Goulding, 52, 53
Goulet, 83
Gouverneur, 8, 88, 185,
190
Gove. 179
Grace. 155
Graham, 3, 4, 155 *,
Grange,i6, 20
Grant, 58, 73, 100, ic6
Grastocke, 76
Grau. 8
Grauw, 141
Graves, 53
Gray, 180
Green. 62. 73, 113, 144
Greene, 45, 50, 54, 63,
75- 204
Greenloe, 206
Greenly, 39
Greenwood, 63. 114
Greese, 54
Gregory, 80
Gresnal, 205
Greveraat, 88
Griffin, 103, 191, 203,
205, 208
Griffing, 51
Grindy, 43, 55, no, 195
Groen, 85
Groesbeek, 146
Grove, 205
(irumme, 84
Grymev
Gryphin, 204
Gudlaugson, 165, 166
Guiteau, 25
Gulek. 145
Gurowski. • 1 ;
Guyle, 206
Haan, igo
Haanrad, n
Haarn, 183
Haaton, 106
Hack, 1
Hackett. 55
Haen, 146
Haering, 143
Hagen, 18
Haig, 155
Haight, 198, 199
Haines, 63
Haire, 53
Hakluy;. 171
Haldane, 63
Hale, 70, 132, 137, 162
Halfheade, 55
Hall, 53, 112, 179, i8<
1S1, 205
HalTex-k, 207, 208
Halles, 53
Hallet, 128
Halliot, 128
Hallock, 58
Ham. 16, 143, 186
Hamilton, 57, 62
"amnion, 76
I ! . 1 1 J 1 1 I n ' 1 1 , yu
Hammond, 56
Hampe. 17
Hancock, go, 162
Hand, 63
Handley, 71, 134
Haneraet, 144
Hanson, 209
Hapborne, 54
Harberd, 205
Harbottle, 195
Harden, 184
Hardenberg, 82
Hardenbergh, 157
Hardenbroek, 10, 88,
142, 183, 184, 188
Hardenburgh, 5
Harder, 19
Hardin, 53
Harding. 75
Harhgenbergen, 85
Haring, 84, 143
Harley, 76
Harmond. 53
Harper, 71
Harris, 52, 113, 139, 140,
179, 205
Harrison, 27, 52, 63, 180,
181
Harrisson, 77
Harsse, 81
Harssen. 142. 189
Hart. 138, 209
Hartcastle, 204
Harte, 206
Hartley, 208
Hartman. 71
Hartranft. 157
Hartwell, 53
Harvard, in
Harvy, 53, 76
Harvye, 204
Hasbrook, 63
Hasbrouck, 3, 152, 153
Hi cbrigge, 43
Hasell, 63
Haskins, 79, 80
Hassink, 12
Hatfield, 62,89, 9°> 95)
, *77, 178
Hatter, 106
I [auj hurst, 208
I [avens, 39, 41, <
1 Live Qson, 103
Haver, 87
Haviland, 88
Haw kins, 76, 204
Hawkyns, 76
I law lej . ' ■
Haxwccd, 205
8, 103
Hayes, 63, 76, 106, 120,
204
Haynes, 53, 55, 75, 204
Hayt, 70. 74
Haywood, 54
Hazard, 112
Hazen, 177
Heath, 53
Hebert. 105
Hedger. 54
Heerman, 83, 185
Heermance, 4
Heermans, 84
Heermanse, 152
Hegeman, 154
Heitaker, 142
Hellakes, 7
Helling, 13, 189
Helter, 13
Hems, 56
Henderson, 106, 113,
133- x37
Hendrikse, 187
Henion, 9
Hennen, 144
Hennigar, 181, 182
Herder, 188
Hereman. 85, 143
Herlulfsson, 165
Herps, 10
Herrick, 193
Herring, 186
Herringman, 44
Herrman, 1, 2, 3, 57,
6?, 113
Hertel, 183
Hewling, 53
Heyer, 83, 84, 88, 144,
183, 184, 185
Heyward, 78
Hibon, 85, 142
Hicks, 63
Higgins, 77
Hill, 54, 62, 60, 71, 195,
205
Hillegas, 162
Hilyard. 56
Hinds, 139
Hitteg, 144
Hix, 53
Hixon. 77
Hixson, 55
Hoagland, 63
Hoard, 70, 135
Hodge, 158
Hodgets, 77
Hodgson, 53
Hoes, 63, no, in, 127
Hoffman, 69, 71, no
Hofman, 189
Holcomb, 133, 137
Holcombe, 63
Holdridge. 70, 73
Holland, 55
Holman, 106
Holmes. 76. 208
Holsapel, 146
Hoist, 14, 144
Horn, 184
Homes, 54, 204
Horns, 184
Hone, 112. 151
Honnywell. 205
Hoofrhanin, 14
Hoogelandt, 141
Hoogland, 8, 9, 10, 12,
13, 14, 184
Hooglandl, S3, 145
Hoogtelling, 152
I I. "'per, 106
Hoornbeck, 5
Hopkins, 53, 63, 75,
104, 113, 208, 209
Index of Names in Volume XXII.
215
Hopkinson, 97
Hoppe, 8, 12, 14, 83. 85,
87, 142, 147, 185,
190
Hopper, 146
Hopson, 63
Hornor, 158
Horsford, 41
Horth, 75
Horton, 19. 192
Hough, 196, 197, 205
II ult, 75
House. 75
Hoveling. 88
Hovclring, 88
Howard, 35, 50, 63, 77,
80
Howe, 62, 91, 94, 95, 96
Howland, 112, 2 7
Howse. 205
Hudday. 204
Huddy. 93
Hudson, 163, 174
Hughes, 208
Hugo. 54
Hull. 98, 99
Humfrey, 204
Humphreys. 113
Huiisdon, 52
Hunt, 79, 208
Hunter. 10, 141, 190
Huntington, 63, 197,
198
Huntt, 185
Huntting, 133, 137
Hurry. 63, 162
Hutchinson, 37, 205
Hutton, 46, 54
Huyler. go, 91, 92, 93,
94, 95^ 96, 98
Hyatt, 72, 106, 175
Hyde, 63, 195, 196. 208,
209
Hyer, 7, 10, 142
Idcssen. 9
lies. 53
Ingle. 77
Ingraham. 63
Ingram. 171
Inman. no
Innis. 150
Ireland, 63
Irving. 112, 116
Ivcrson, 52
Izzard, 53
Jackson, 25, 75, 95, 2^4
Jacobs, 8, 184, 189
Jacobze, 84, 87
Jakson, 10, 84
James, 13, 55, 56, 155,
179, 204
Jansen. 5, 144, 147
Jansse, 83, 84, 86, 87,
142, 143, 148, 1S9
Janssen. 147, 188, 189
Jarvis, 189
Jay, 63, 103
Jeats, 10
Jeffers. 141
Jefferson, 23, 208
Jeffery. 56
lemyn. 18S
Jenkins. 162
Jenney, 129
Jerome, 52, 54
Jerris. 142
Jessop. in
Jesup. 63
Jewell, no
Jewett, 196
Jewitt, 63
ii/i
Jione, 204
Jogues. 173
Johnson, 29. 39, 47, 51,
53i 54- 56, 58, 62,63,
75, 109, 198, 204,
205
Johnston, 62, 180
T"linc. 72
Jonas, 88
Jones, 34, 37, 38, 39, 46,
47, 48,. 53, 63, 75,77,
148. 161
Jongbloed, 11
Joplyn, 76
Jordan, 53, 114
Joseph, 20
Joy, 161
Joyncr, 77
Judson, 162
Jurriansz, 143
jusdin, 54
Karlsefne, 165
Katherns, 205
Kayes, 204
Keeble, 131
Keep, 70, 133, 137
Keith. 128
Kellat, 207
Kellogg, 48, 63, 70,
Kelsey, 136
Kembel, 85
Kemble, 9. 13, 113
Kemmer, 11
Kempe. 2 7
Kendall. 76
Kendrick, 162
Kennedy, 177
Kennynge. 205
Kent, 200
Kerby, 15, 16
Kermer. n, 1S5. 188
Kerr. 181
Kershaw. 69, 72
Kersceng, 86, 189
Kersting. 83
Kesick. 67
Ketcham. 63
Ketelhuin, 84, 85
Keteltas, 14, 145
Ketle, 55
Kevmishe, 204
Kidd, 45
Kidder. 63
Kidyer. 77
Kierstede, 10, 13,
108, 143, 145, 189
Kilin, 21
Kilmaeswz, 189
Kimber, 141
King, 49. 53, 55, 57,
62, 63, 10=;, 113. 1
157, 160, 161, 1
179
Kingsbury, 78, 79
Kinnear, 63
Kinnet. 56
Kinney, 23
Kip, 8. 10, 12, 13, 81
85. 86, 145, 147. 1
184, l88, I90, 210
Kippin, 178
Kirby, 55, 162
Kirke, 76, 204
Kirkland, 193
Kirkman, 53"
Kissam, 107
Kissock, 67
Kisuyck, 67
Kittel. 187
Klarson, 83
Klok. I4
Kloppci, 83, 88
81,82,
Klouwor, 85
Knegt, 189
Knight, 205, 206, 207
Knoblock, 17
Knoweles, 53
Knowles, 55, 179, 1S1,
182
Knowlton, 104
Koek, Si, 04
Koely, 86
Kokkeveer, 83
Kokkever, 142
Koning, 88, 142, 146,
147. 185. 186, 189
Kool. 157, 183
Korssen, 146
Kortregt, 14, 83, 185,
189
Koster, 85. 183
Kranny, 86
Kregier, 84
Krom, 4, 151, 152
Kuiler, 189
Kuiper, 86, 143. 188
Kunstman, 171
Kuyper, 8, 88, 144, 745,
186
Kuypers, 82
Kyte, 206
Labach, 145
Lachier, 146
Lacy, 2 7
Lake, 86, 147, 184
Lam, 82, 87, 146, 147,
.89
Lamare, 9
La Matere, 142
Lamb, 7. 12, 63, 86, 143,
146, 195
Lambert, =2
Lamberton, 63
Lammerdze, 183
Lammerse, 13, 14, 86,
185
Lammersz, 87
La Mont. 17
Landsdell, 206
Lane, 41, 43, 73, 76, 136
Langdon, 118, 189
Lang ford, 204
Langton, 206
Lanier, 62
Lankford, 76
Lanmerse, 14
Lansinck, 157
Lansing. 71, 187
Larmond, 106
Lashly, 147
Latham. 174
Latner, 206
Laton, 84, 85, 187
Latting, 58, 77, 102, 103.
104, 113
Laurens, 84
Laurenz, 82
Laurier, 12, 87
Laval, ii.4
Laverditre, 105
Law, £33, 137
Lawne, 204
Lawrence, 10, 13, 25,
34, 35, 36, 54, 63, 98,
99, 186, 197, 209
Lawton. 63
Lazarus, no, 1C2
Leacock, 75
Leake, 205
Learning. 64
Ledyard, 47, 157
Lee. 41, 54. 57, 64, 76,
97, 143, 190, x96,
208
Lefever, 4. 23
Lefferts, 145. 177, 181
Le Moine, 65
Lemon. 75, 76
Le Montes, 7, 83
Lenox, 112
Lent, 10, 82, 87
Lepin, 157
Lerefaict, 205
Leroy. 64. 150. 157
Lescher, 190
Lisjer, 83, 145, 146
Lesser, 82
Lets. 85
Letlin, 102, 158
Lewby, 205
Lewis. 22, 56
Leynsen, 11, 12
Levsler. 8
L'Hommedieu, 38, 41
Liesbeth, 10
Lieversen. 186
Lightfoote, 76
Linde. 148
Linsey. 206
Lintron, 75
Lippincott. 91, 93, 94
Litleton. 53, 206
Litterd. 54
Little, 64
Livingston, ig, 40, 41,
44, 48, 49, 61, 64, 81,
88, 108, no, 104
Lloyd, 34, 36, 64
Lockhart, 180
Loe. 55
Long, 76
Loockersman, 2
Lookerman, 108
Lord. 77, 196. 198
Loring, 92
Lorraine, 68
Lory, 84, 145
Lossing, 89, 90, 91, 97,
98
Lot. 87. 144, 1S3
Lott. 190
Louer. 141
Lourens, 144
Loutet. 14
Louw. Si. 86, 152,
153. 154-184
Loveday, 70
Low, 8. 1 ; ,,
Lowenson. im
Lowrey, 133, 137
Ludlow. 35, 39, 46, 47,
64
Lugard, 66
Luis. 184
Lush, 51
Luwes, Si. 183
Luwis, 186, 187
Lyell. 69
Lyle, 64
Lyllam, -5
Lynch, 88
Lynde, 196
Lynsen, to, 141, 147
Lynssen, 144
Lynsze, 87
Macaulay, 19
Mackay-Smith, 64, 105
Maclay, 64
Madison, 42. 119
Magannis, 77
vlagdanel, 13
Magellan. 169
Magoon, 62
Maitland. in
Major. 205
Makbrok, 145
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Makpees, 12
Makvethers, 83
Malignes, 54
Mallerd. 77
Mallery, 198
Man, 54, 85. 142
187
Mandeviel, 83
Mann. 64
Manny, 145
Marble, 197
Marcelusse, 87
March, 55
Marchalk, 81
Marham, 77
Maris, 145
Markel, 183
Mario, 52
Marlton. 55
Marquand, 56, 64
Marrener, 90, 91,
Marret, 76
Marrick, 79
Marron. 163, 166
Marryat. 89
Marschalck. 84
Marschalk, 8, n, 147,
183, 188, 190
Marsh. 53, 54, 70, 132,
'36, 137
Marshalk, 86
Marshall, 55, 196
Marshe, 77
Martin, 55, 205, 206
Martine, 75, 76
Martyr, 169, 170
Marvin, 196. 206
Mason, 55, 60, 161
Massey, 71
Mather, 64, 191
Mathewes, 204, 205
Mathews, 54
Mathewson, 179
Matlocke, 77
Matt. 13
Mattheus, 141
Matthis, 189
Mattoon, 58
Mattson, 53
Maulin, 14, 82
Maundeviel, 9, 12
Mawson, 205
Maybanke, 75
Mayden, 14s
Maynarcl, .05
Mazier, 81
McAdams. 37, 39
McCall. 179
McClellan, 51, 120
McConnell, 60, 158
McDonald, 15
McDowell, 67, 134, 138
McKay, 80
Mcl.achlan, 41
McLean, ji
McLellan, 100, 101
McMaster, 62
McNab, 180
McPherson, 71, 133
Mead, 72, 134, 135
Medlicote. 55
Mellsam, 204
Mc 1, hash, 85
Melsbog, 183
Merbury, 55
Mercer. 206
Meredith, 195
Mcrkel, 153
Mcrritt, 64, 66, 208, 209
Mesier, 87, 143, 184
Mesjerol, 187
Metcalfe, 204
Metker, 85
Meyer, 10, n, 12, 13,
81, 82, 86, 143, 146,
189
Meyers, 143
Michel!, 205
Micrison. 54
Midlemore. 77
Midleton, 55, 204
Miller, 10, 23, 147, 158,
204
Mills, 54
Mil ward, 128
Mince, 204
Minthorn, 7, 141, 142,
184
Minthorne, 82, 187, 188
Miserol. 13, 141, 148
Mitchell. 175, 209
MkEvers. 10
Moncrief, 91
Mond. 55
Monke, 53
Monroe. 42, 207
Montagne, 7, 10, n, 13.
141
Montanje. 85, 86, 87,
185, 186
Montgomery, 64, 65,
66, 97, 162
Montpesson, 128
Moone. 84, 206
Moore, 64, 103, 113
Mor, 76
More. 123
Morehouse. 53
Morgan, 48, 64, 76, 158
Morneshawe, 52, 53
Morris, 47. 72, 190, 207
Morrison, 74
Morse, 200
Morton, 64 .
Mott. ii2, 146, 175
Moulin, 8
Moysies. 206
Mucksedge, 53
Mulbisse, 205
Mulford, 41, 62. 64 ■«
Mullam, 206
Munsell, 133, 137
Murcott, 55
Murphy, 32
Murray, 66, 113
Murrine, 54
Musgrave, 55
Myer, 185, 186, 187
Mynar, 143
Myners, 146
Mynett, 205
Nack, 146
Nagel, 143
Kak. 14, 183, 186
Naptcn, 76
Nash. 206
Navarrette, :69
Navarro, 64
Neave, 76
Nedds, 76
Neger, 7
Neilson, 16, 199
Nelson, 36, 104
Nersmith, 85
Netherland, 77
Nevins, 91
Ncwbold, 45
Newby, 205
Newcome, 77
Newes, 55
Newkerk, 4, 5
Newlin, 208
Nicholls, 206
Nichols, 53, 75
Nicholson, 206
Nicoll, 34, 37, 38, 39. 41
Nicolls, 35. 38, :38
Nieirkerk, 147
Nieuwkerck, 88
Nights, 148
Nipping, 204
Noah, 162
Noble, 179
Norbery, 76
Norris. 70, 73, 205
North. 70, 73
Norton, 72, 205
Norwood, 81, 183
Noten, 143
Nottingham, 3
Nowland, 16, 17
Noyes, 64. 196
Oakes, 188
Oakey, 67
Oakley, 5
Oblinus, 87
Obryn. 55
O'Callaghan, 59
Ockwell, 54
O'Connell, 18
Ofrley, 77
Ogden, 23, 90, 106, 130,
150, 151
Ogelvie. 84
Olders, 147
Olferts, 14,83
Oliver, 67: 159
Olivier, 10
Olney, 58
Olphers, 188
Oltgeldt. 14
Onderdonk, 37, 91, 92,
94- 175
O'Neele, 208
Onkelbach, 188
Onkelbag, 11, 12
Oosterloom, 14
Oothout, 9
Oothouwt, 84, 86
Oothowdt, 14
Openwael, 83
Orpinn, 204
Osborn, 67
Osbourne, 207
Osterhout, 153
Ostrander, 154
Ot, 85, 144, 148
Oudt, 12
Outman, 185
Ouwtmans, 183
Overton, 193
Owen, 36, 64, 76
Owens, 153
Oyls, 81
Paalding, 83, 145, 148,
189
Packer, 77, 79. 204
Paers, 184, 187
Page, 77
Paine, 21, 53, 59, 64,
193, 207
Paldin<;, 8, 10
Palhatchet, 77
Paling, 7, 8
Pallan, 137
Pallcoke. 55
Palmer, 64, 70, 74, 136
Pamerton, 145
Pannier, 206
Parci I. 9, 145, 186 ^
Paris, 64, 100, 101
Parker, 17, 62, 64, 75,
207
Parkman, 62, 105
Parncll. 206
Parsel. 84 ,
Parsons, 64
Part on, 112
Partridge, 180
Pasman, 193
Passage, 71
Pate. 54
Paterson, 57, 206
Pattan, 133
Paulse, 142
Paulsze, 183
Paulus. 85, 144
Paulusse, 85, 143
Paybody, 55
Payne, 21, 39, 75, 206
Peabody, 64
Pease. 132, 137
Peck. 77, 80
Peek, 7, 8, u. 14. 83.
143, 147, 148, 185,
186, 193, 194
Peel, 66
Peers, 11, 81, 185
Peffer, 18;
Pel, 87, 141, 143, 179,
186
Pell, 7, 8, 11, 64, 112
Pels, 9, 14, 82, 84, 141,
'44. *47i M, 157.
186, 187, 190
Pelton. 133, 137
Pennington, 23
Pepper. 55, 76
Percel, 88
Percival, 196
Percy, 41
Perill, 76
Perkes, 205
Pcrrine, 68, 69, 70
Perrot, 104
Perry, u
Persel, 184 -^_
Persen, 5, 6
Pert. 55
Pett, 56, 204
Pew. 53
Phelps, 58, 103
Pheni.x, 7
Philips, 147
Philipse, 14, 81, 82, i3
Phillips, 204
Phcenix. 60
Pickle, 18
Pickles, 179
Pickup, 182
Pierce, 19R
Pierson, 52
Pieters, 10, 186
Pieterse, 12, 81, 87, 186
Pietersen, 86
Pieterson, 85
Pietersse, 83
Pietersze, 183
Piket, 81
Pinder, 204
Pinnox, 206
Pinson, 164
Piper, 180
Pirkin, 55
Pit. t4
Pitt, 13. 76
Pizigani, 163
Piatt, 19, 38, 178
Plomer, 53
Plowright, 75
Plummer, 64
Poel, 142, 184
Poenix, 54
Poillon, 64
Polhamus, 157
Polk, 30, 31
Poison, 113
Pommery, 88
1 Pomre, 8
2l8
Index of Names in Volume XXII.
Southwick, 113
Sorvenstccn, 85
Spaan, 88
Sparrow, 53
Spencer, 43, 54, 61, 62
75, '23
Spicer, 76, 206
Spier, 142
Spoor. 185
Sprague, 195
Springer, iSd, 189
Spurr, 181
Staar, 183
Staats, 7
Stacy, 75
Staf. 147
Stagwell, 25
Stamack, 75
Stannidge, ;s
Stanton. 64. 206
Staples, 50, 206
Stapleton. 206
Starkweather, 72
Starr. 111
Starsmore, 54
Stayner, 205
Steaken, 76
Stebard, 75
Stebbing, 205
Steinme',.3, 1^7
Stetson. 136
Stevens. 14, 47 49. 64,
77. ios
Stevenson. 19, 186
Steventon, 55
Stewart. 57, 69, 98, 99,
104. 105
Stey, 85
Stickings, 56
Stickney, 133, 157
Stidel, 84
Stiles. 51, 64
Stilwell, 64, 113
Stirling, 62, 89, 90, 98
Stirrupp, 76
Stoatenburg, 141
Stock ti -
Stokes. 64
Stokliolm. 12
Stone. 64, 193
Stonhowse, 235
St' inner. 75
Stor.nerd, 76
Storer, 90, 96
S orey, 90, 94
Storky. 204
Story, 53
Stouber, 144, 189
Stout. 1 1
St iut< nburg, 141, 148,
186. 190
Stoutenburgh. 143
StOUWtenburg, 1S7
Streddar, 53
Streder, 144
Street, 76
Stringer, -
trong , p. 3S, 43, 47,
■ . . 1 j6. 209
. ycker, 67
^trykcr, 57, 64, 67, 90,
94. 98
Stuart. 56, £4. 105
Stubbs. 76
Stuiver, 87
Sturdy, 205
Stuyvesant, 1, 2
Styicman. 55
Styles, 205
Stymetz, 83
Stymson, 75
Styn, 190
Stynmets, S4
Stynmetz, 87
Summers. 55
Sunderlin, 70, 73, 135
Sunol. 56
Sutherland, 192, 208
Sutphin, 64
Swaan, 7, 87
Swansich, 183
Svvanton, 205
Swart, 157
Swarthout. 42, 64
Swits. 1 S
Sylvester, 8, 58
Symense, S
Symons, 75, 146
Tabor, 203
Taljuw, ii
Tallmadge, 38, 64
Talon, 104
Tandy, 76
Tang, 88
Tapley, 76
Tappe, 157
Tappen. 4
Tarp, 84, 185
Taylor, 32, 46, 47, 55,
180, 194, 206
Teboe, 86
Telford, 36
Teller. 141, 145
Temple, 36
Ten Broeck, 7, 8, 156,
157
Ten Brock, 82, 87, 141,
142, 146, 147, 183,
IQO
Ten Eyck. 3, 4, 7, 11,
13, 68, 69, 71, 144.
'47
Ten Evk 81, 82, 142,
183, 1S4, 187, 189
Terhune, 67
Terneur, 87
Terp, 148
Terwilger, 152
Tevo, 147. 187
Thalheimer. 69
Thatford, 16
Thayer, 78, 79, 133,
138
Theobalds. 10, n, 54 -
Thomas, 38, 87, 90, ioo,N
127, 129. 130, 132,
136, 204, 208
Thomes, 209
Thompson, 33-51, 56,
62, 64, 66-74, IT°,
132-141, 160, 162,
204, 208, 209
Thomson. 106, 131-140,
142, 159
rh prig, i»4
Tnorley. 205
Thorne, 46. 54, 75, 174-
18^
Thornell, 205
Thornton, 52, 53, 77
Thrasher, 78
Throgman, 206
Thunder, 54
rhurman. 147
Thwaites, 113
Tibouwt, 188. 189
Tiebout. 8, 11, 12. £5,
142, 183
Tiebouwt, 143, 187
Tienhoven, 142, 144,
188
Tietsoort, 10
Tilburg, 183
Tilje. 85
fillinghast, 1:0
Timson, 139
Tittle, 144
Titus, 112
Tjek, 7
Tobey, 18, 19
Todd, 118
Todhunter 43, 46
Tompkins, 49. 194
Tompson, 52,54,55. 66.
77, 138, 204
Tomson, 139
Tooker, 74
Toppen, 159
Topping, 1 [4
Torrey, 161
Towler, 53
Towneley, 35
Towner. 70
Tovvnsend, 64, 177, 178.
'/->• 182
Travers, 26
'1' red well, 177
Trenchaid, 64
Trueman, 179
Trumpour, 15
Tryon, 41
Tucker, 185
Tuckerman. 64
Tukker, 9, 10, 11
Tunnell. 106
Tunstall, 36
Tuphe'n, 113
Turelott, 54
Turk, S, 11, 82, 86, 88,
141, 144, 145, 183,
186, 187, 188, 189,
190
Turner, 55, 206
Turnure, 105
Tuttle, 60
Tutty, 206
Twintyman, 183
Tyler, 41, 48
Ubley. 75
Uit den Bogaart, 84
Uitdenbogard, 190
Uittenbogaard. 141
Uittenbogart, 8, 10
Uyttenbogaert, 145
Unatt, 200
Underhill. 112
Urquhart, 128
Vaghan, 55
Vail, 64, 69
\ ajer, 7
Valentine, 80, 209
Valentyn, 13, 146
Van, 54
Van Aarnem, Si, 82, 85,
Van Amen, 190
Van Arnhem. 145
Van Auken, 64
Van Bendhuizen, 1S8
Van Benschoten, 57,
*54
\ an Benthuysen, 145
Van Bossen, 163
Van Brug. 81. 88
Van Buren. 2s. 26, 27,
30, 31, 73, 136
Van liur >
Van Gussum, 8
Van Biiuren, 13
Van Cortland, 7, 9
Van Cortland 83. 187
Van Cortlandt, 14, 41
Van Cortlant. 1 \
Van Dam. 12. 85, 141,
148, 157, 184
Van de Bogaard. 154
Van de Brookes, 75
Van den Berg, 85, 14a/,
183, 1:5, 190
Vandenburg, 72, 135
Vanden Heul. 184
Vander Beck, 11
Vanderbilt. 56, 64, 155
Vanderburgh. 4
Vanderdonk, 2
Vander Crist, 84. 145
Vander Heul. 8, 9, 86
Vander Heyde, 147
Vander Hoel. 143, 185
ander Hocvenden,
148
Vanderhoof, 51
Vanderklyf, 103
Vander Linde, 147
Vander Menten, 157
Vander Palm, 62
Vander Spiegel. 10, S4
Vander Vechte, 157
Vander Voorst, 14S
Vander Voort, 157, 15S,
'85
Van Deurse. 81, 82
Van Deursen, 9, 11, 85,
143, 146, 147, 103.
184, 187
Van Deurssen, 7, 88
Van Deurszen, 84
Vande Voort. 13, 14
Vande Water. 7, 8, 11,
12, 81, 88, 144, 1S5.
188
Van Duin, 86
Van Duyn, 186
Van Dyck. 157
VanDyk, 11. 14,81, 145
Van Dyke, 58
Vane. 44
Van Enden. T54
Van Celder, 8, y. 11, S2,
84, 85, 87, 14.:, 14;.
148, 1S3. 1S4, 187,
189
Van Cevcren. 84
Van Grum, 188
Van Hardenberg, 2
Van Heyninge, 82
Van Hi hi,
142. 146, 189, 190
Van Hoeven, 157
Van Horn, 150
Van Home, 10, 85, C6,
14 , 146, 147, 148,
186
Van Imburg, 81, 185
Van Keuren. S
Van Kingswil, 81
Van Kordand, 13, 141
Van Laar, 8. 147
Van Loon, 5
Van Marken, 157
Van Mepel, 87
Van Mepelen, 7, 12
Van Nes, [4 ;
Van Ness, 68, 6,.
133, 138
\ an Nessen, 157
Van Nest, 72, 73
Van Neste, 68, 09
Vannondker, 52
Van Norden. 7, 8. 9, :o,
64. 83, 85. 141, 142,
148. 1S3. 187. 190
Van Nostrand, i-j
Van Olsi, 85
Van Oort. 13, 147
Van Orden. 6, 14, 83,
86. 87, 142, 14.5. 147,
190
Index of Names in Volume XXII.
l '
A
to
u
Me
Me
Mel
Men
Merc
Merc,
Merri,
Mesie
Mesfo
Metca)
Metkcr
Poole, 52, 72, 75
Poory, 54
Pope. 19
Popelesdorf, 190
Poppelsdorf, 146
Pore, 54
Porter, 209
Post. 84, 196
Potter, 7, 62, 105, 145,
148. 186
Potts, 24, 158, 184
Poulse, 9, 11
Poulsen, 9
Poulus, 148
Poulusse, 88, 141, 146
Poundsett, 55
Pouwels, 146
Powel, 106
Powell, 54, 206, 208
Prall, 43, 46
Pratt, T93
Price, 16, 54, 109, 206,
209
Prichard, 76
Prime, 49, 161
Priton, 193
Procter, 76
Proctor, 208
Provoost, 14, Si, 32, 88,
142, 143, 146, 183,
185, 186, 208
Pruyn, 15, 20, 56, 64, 75,
204
Pultrow, 11
Putnpelly. 21, 62, 64,
104
Purchas, 206
Purchett, 55
Purdy, 205
Purple, 60, 64, 104, 114
- Pursell, 76
Putnam, 45, 156
Pye, 74, 75, 136
Pygott, 53
Quackenbosch, 144, 157
Quakkenbos, 10
Quakkenbosch. 7, 19, 87
Queen, 6
Quigley, 90, 91, 96
Quik, 7, 10, 11, 84, 88,
MS
Quinlan, 70, 73, 74
Quintard, 56
Radechffe, 106
Ral, 142
Rail, 188
Ramsay, 11 1
Randall, 158
Ranous, 72, 134
Rapalje, 83, 148, 176,
177, 190
Rapelya, 158
Rattermann, 57
Raum, 62
Rawlins, 53, 54
Rawlinson, 123
Ray, 46, 49
Raymond, 61, 105, 106
Rayner, 206
Read, 56, 64, 80
Reade, 53, 150
Redal, 1
Redmond, no
Reed, 64, 159, 194
Reeder, 20
Rees, 157
Reeve, 77
Reignolds, 54, 76
Reinders, 88
Reithmuller, 62
Remmant, 75
Remsen, 47
Renaudet, 9
Rensselaer, 184
Rew, 76
Reynders, 83, 143, 1&5
Rhinelander, 105
Rhodes, 76
Ribeiro, 170
Richard, 13, 184
Richards, 53, 143, 160
Richbell, 112
Riche, 185
Riches, 76
Ricketson, 179
Ridgeway, 52
Riker, 113
Ringo, 144
Rives, 160
Rivington, 91, 92, 93, 95
Robberson, 82
Robblee, 182
Roberts, 54, 62, 76, 205,
206
Robertson, 74, 136
Roberval, 170
Robinson, 16, 45, 53, 64,
76, 104, 112, 198, 205
Robson, 180, 182
Rodenbough, 162
Rodgers. 106
Rodgcrson, 106
Rodman, 112
Roe, 75, 206
Rogers, 48, 55, 78
Roll, 7, 141
Rolph, 52
Rome, 81, 82, 84, 86, 186,
189
Romeyn, 64
Romme, 7, n, 12, 13
Rook, 142
Rooke, 75, 76
Roome, 10, 55, 88, 141,
144, 145, 148, 185,
188
Roorbach, 141
Roorbag, 8
Roosa, 151, 152, 153
Rooseboom, 145
Roosevelt, 8, 10, 64, 145,
148
Rosa, 153
Roseboom, 84, 88
Rosecrans, 5
Roseveldt, 81, 184
Rosevelt, 188
Roskell, 150
Ross, 15, 16, 19
Rottery, 183
Rounds, 79
Rouw, 188
Rowe, 55, 133, 137
Rowles, 204
Rowley, 52
Royston, 54
Rozeveldt, 14, 142, 183
Rozevelt, 143
Ruddy, 52
Ruggles, 177, 180
Rumiff, 118
Rumney, 55
Rumsey, 16
Rusco, 80
Rush, 41
Rushforth, 204
Rushmore, 80
Rusje, 11
Ruskin, 124
Russell, 54, 75, 206
Rut, 170
Rutgers, 10, 12, 13, 83,
84, 87, 141, 143, 144,
145, 147, 184, 187
Rutherfurd, 103
Ruthingam, 205
Rutter, 64
Rycke, 147
Ryder. 16, 21
^Ryers, 188
""Ryke, 8, 88, 145, 148
Rykman, 189
Ryley, 76
Ryme. 205
Rynders, S, 9, 148
Sabrisco. 8, ic, 146, 148,
o l87
Sage, 50, 56, 64
Sah'.er, 154
Saint Gelais, 170
Salisbury, 85
Sallee, 139
Salter, 91. 179
Saltonsta'.l, 44
Sambury, 189
Sammis, 80
Sammon, 53, 83, 141
Samon, 76
Sampson, 46, 48
Samuell, 205
Sandon, 52, 76
Sands, 47, 174, 175, 177,
186, 199
Sanuto, 163
Sapcoate, 77
Sappel, 85
Satterlee, 50, 51
Saunders, 55, 196, 204
Savage, 149, 150
Sawkins, 56
Sawyer, 79
Say, 43
Scampion, 205
Scarlett, 43
Schaats, 183
Schamp, 13, 14, 148, 157,
185
Schell, 64
Schenck, 92, 140, 157
Schermerhoorn, 11, 146
Schermerhorn, 64
Scheurman, 66
Schieffelin, 64
Schilman, 11, 86
Schmidt, no
Schoffel, 187
Schofield, 101
Schooler, 76
Schoonhoven, 157
Schoonmaker, 5, 64,
_ '52
Schopman, 188
Schot, 146, 184, 186
Schott, 12
Schuiler. 84, 188
Schuet, 144
Schureman, 91
Schut, 85
ScLuurman, 6^ ,4, 131,
140
Schuyler, 5, 7, io, 64,
67. 69, 84, 187
Score, 207
Scott, jo, 205, 208
Scovil, 1S1
Seabery, 206
Seaman, 39, 106, 112
Seamarke, 77
Sebering, 8
Scbring, 82, 145, 188 V
Secalart, 170
Seckcrley, 145
Seeler, 52
Selden, 196
Sele, 43
Sellars, 77
217
Selover, 141
Sens. 83
Sequence, 77
Sergeant, 23
Serly. 187
Serra, 203
Seton, in
Sevenoogen, 185
Sewall, 208
Seward, 64
Sewell. 58
Seymour. 70, 105, 155
Seyward. 52
Shakespeare, 76, 106
Sharpe, 62
Shavelje, 144
Shaw. 153, 206
Shawe. 55
Shear, 64
Shebo. 190
Sheerman, 85
Sheldon, 209
Shepherd, 59, 208
Sheppard, 36
Sherer, 106
Sheridan, ioo-
Sherley. 75
Sherman, 64, 100, 101,
'°5
Sherwood, 135
Shile, 147
Shippen, 41
Shirley, 160
Shonke, 76
Shorter, 77
Shrady, 1 4
Sibley, 35
Sibo, 82
Sickels, 7, 106
Sickles, 64
Siggels, 188
Sikkels. 143
Silke. 76
Simmons, 206
Simon, 17, 144
Simpson, 55
Sims, 142
Sinclaar, 141
Sinnickson, 62
Sipkens, 188
Sjoet, 8, 14, 143
Skerratt, 206
Skerrett, 206
Skilman, 88, 188
Skingle, 75
Skipper. 55
Slater, 195
Sleeman, 97
Sleightam, 74, 136
Slidel, 147, 189
Slot, 143
Slover, 86, 134, 147
Smallwood, 48
Smit, 82, 144, 188, 190
^mith, 7, 8, 12, 15, 17,
34> 3£ 36, 38,39,41,
51, 5^. . 54, 55, 64,
80, 83, 88, . -, 140
146, 174, 1&5, o;
198, 204, 206, 2C.
20}
Smyth, 64
Sneden, 178, 179, 180
Snet, 82
Snider, 182
Snover, 72
Snyder, 87, 144, 183,
lyo
Sm tman, 183
Somcrendyk, 7, 142
Somers, 98
Soubcr. 189
Southard, 24
Index of Names in Volume XXII.
219
Van Pelt, 84, 142, 148, 1
183
Van Pera, 142
Van Ranst. ,3, 145. 189
Van Ravesteyn
Van Rensselear. 38, 41,
?7' ''->> io5
Van Sanden. 157
Van Sant. 148
Van Schayk, 141, 183,
190
Van Sent, 143
Van Seys. 8, 9
Van Seysen, 12
Van Sichele, 145
Van Siclen, 64, T14, 159
Van Sikkelen, 185
Van Slyk. 85
Van Solingen. 87
Van Sys, n, 141
Van Syse. 88. 146, 186
Van Taarling, 12. 13
Van Taerling, 187
Van Teerling, 1S7
Van Tilburg, 190
Van Tuyl.S4, 186
Van Tvvillcr. 1
Van Vechten, 146
Van Vegten, 81, 82, 189,
190
Van Veurden. 147
Van Vlek, 8, 189
Van \'lekken, 141
Van Vliet, 152, 154
Van Voorhis, 64
Van Voorst. 157
Van Vorst. 7, 11, 85,
142. 133, 188
Van Wagenen. 4, 64,
142. 151-154
Van Water, .189
Van Werckhausen, 2
Van Winckel, 143
Van Wmkelen, 188
Van Wvck. 41, 158, 1S5
Van Wyk, 8. 9, 14, 83,
143- M6
Van Yeveres, 184
Van Zand, 183
Van Zandt. 11. 13. 186
Van Zant, 7, 14, 02, 85,
148, 183, 185
Varick, 38
Varik. 11. 141, 142. 187
Varleth, 3
Vater. 144
Vause, 206
Veets. SS
Wile. 69
Venice. 53
Verber, 744
Ver Duyn. 12. 147
Verkerk. 86. S8
V< rmont. 64
Vernon, 17
Verplanck, 105
Ver Plank. 82. 146, i?5,
189
Verrazano, 167, 108. 174
Ver Wey, 9
Vessye, 77
Vetch, 13, 184
Vibert, 179
Vickars, 54
Viele, 12, 56, 84, 86, 152
Vigne, 173
Vis, 145
Vishcr, 188
Visscher, 2. 88, 157
Vliercboom. 13, 185
Volleman, 143
Volwyler. 148
Von Lengwiche, 199
Von Moltke, 61
Voorhees, 57, 67. 69, 71,
89, 91, 104, 114, 133,
140
Vos. 14
Vosburgh, 4, c8
Vredenborgh, 57
Vredenburs;. :o, 11, 12,
14, 87, 88, 146, 186,
187, 189, 190
Vrederburgh, 11, 146
Vreeland, ix
Vreland, 14
V'relant, 184
Waddington, 155
Wagenaar, 188
Wakefield, ic5
Wakcman, 58, 103, 209
Waldort. 11
Waldron, 7, 9, 10, 12,
14, 85. 141, 142, 184,
185. 187, 188, 190
Wales. 64
Walford, 75
Walgraaf, 145
Walker, 31, 55. 61, 64,
71, 178, 179, 181
Wardle, 195. 204
Wallace. 72, 135
Wallis, 205
Walsh, 5
Walter, 10, 53, 86, 146,
190
Waltermire, 72, 134
Walters, 205
Walton. 9, 76, 141, 206
Warberton, 77
Ward, 49, 52, 64, 113,
161
WTarldron, 86
Warne. 81
Warner. 64, 70
Warren, 76. 197
Washington, 57. 90, 98,
99, in, 149, 150,
158, 198
Wasson, 138 /
Waterman, 5 /
Waters. 1 1 1
Watersall, 76
Waterton, 206
i Watson, 54, 56,- 206
Watts, 38
Wayeht, 76
Waylett. 55
Wayne. 158
Weaver, 62
WTebb, 52, 55, 162
Webber, 9, 207
Webbers. 10, 14, 83, 86
141, 142, 144, 147
183. 188
Webster. 51. 52, ici
Weckenberg. 84
Weekes, 76
Weeks, 64, 6q, 80
Welborne, 56
Welles, 64, 196, 198
Welling, 114
Wells, 55, 72, 76
Wels. 83, 85
Welsch, 8
Wemple. 4, 209, 210
Wendell. 64
Wepham, 204
Wertgen, 85
Wessels, 7, 8, 81, 82. 87,
142. 143, 144. 147.
184, 185, 189
Wesselze. 14, 81
West. 6. 204
Westbrook, 162
Westervelt, 62
Weston. 54
Whcatall, 76
Wheeler. 54. 209
Whitaker, 22. 32
White, 52, 5 (, 56. 64, 78,
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Wiley, no
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Wilkes. SS, 184
Wilkinson, 54
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148
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Willemsze, 187
Willes, 82. 143
Willet, 106
Willett, 62, 112, 113.
206
Williams, 17, 52, 54
in, 135, 201, 205
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Willis. 112
Willith, 11
Willitts. 112
Willoughby, 196
Willowby, 55
Willson, 54, 56
Wilson, 56. 57, 61, 64,
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Wimme, 82
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Wol, 14. 1S7
Wolcott, 195
Wolfe, 46
Wolmer, 75
Wood, 52, 64, 76. 77.
153. 207, 2og
Woodberry, 17S
Wooderd. 11
Woodhull, 36, 37, 38,
58. 103
Woodward, 52, 62, 104,
113
Woolsey, 38
Wooster, 201
Worsley, 206
Worster. 182B
Worthington, 16, 205
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199, 205, 209
Wyckoff. 67
Wyman, 191
Wyngod, 55
Wynkoop, 3, 4. 5, 9, 10,
66, 84, 132, 159
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Wys, 11, 88
Wyt, 189
Yantcs. 52
Yard. 62
Yarley, 53
Yates. 209, 210
Yay, 7, 9
Yeakel. 17
Youmans. 64
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Yveren, 1S4
Zantvoort, 81
Zenger, 8, 14, 88, 90
Zeno. 166
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Rev. BEVERLEY R. BETTS, Chairman. Dr. SAMUEL S. PURPLE.
GfcN. JAS. GRANT WILSON. Mr. THOMAS G. EVANS.
Mr. EDWARD F. DE LANCEY. Mr. WILLIAM P. ROBINSON.
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OCTOBER, 1891.— CONTENTS.
1. Early Explorations of the North American Coast. With seven
Portraits. ...........
2. STEPHEN ThoRNE, the Loyalist. By the Rev. A. W. II. Eaton.
3. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York
Baptisms. (Continued). ........
4. JASPER GRIFFIN OP SoUTHOLD, N. Y. By Edmund J. Cleveland.
5. Weddings at St. .Mary, White Chapel, London. From 1616 to 16^5
(Continued). ..........
6. Notes and Queries. Two Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck— Memorial
History of the City of New York — Bishop Samuel Provoost and Dr. Isaac
Smithson Hartley — Genealogical Inquiries — Old Burial Ground — John
Price, R. N. — Addresses of our Society . ...... 207
7. OBITUARY. Mrs. Rebecca Yates Wemple. ...... 209
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Contains a variety of valuable and interesting matter concerning the History, Antiquities,
Genealogy, and Biography of America. It was commenced in 1847, and is the oldest
historical periodical now published in this country. It is issued quarterly (each number
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